[vtkusers] Re: surface plot/ wire frame plot

[Sergios Goudanis]

Many people do not like pressing keys "w" or "s" so i disabled
these buttons in my application.
A solution is to have two actors having the same input
one of them with representation to surface and the other
to wireframe.
Sample goes like this:

vtkPolyData *pl = ....

vtkPolyDataMapper *map1 = vtkPolyDataMapper::New()
map1->SetInput(pl);
vtkActor *ac1 = vtkActor::New();
ac1->SetMapper(map1);


vtkPolyDataMapper *map2 = vtkPolyDataMapper::New()
map2->SetInput(pl);
vtkActor *ac2 = vtkActor::New();
ac2->SetMapper(map1);

pl->Delete();
map1->Delete();
map2->Delete();

ac1->GetProperty()->SetRepresentationToSurface();
ac2->GetProperty()->SetRepresentationToWireframe();

....

You may give the solid actor a little bit of transparency and choose two good 
colors for the actors.
If you do not have too many cells you can extract geometry 
as lines and use a tube filter for these lines instead of
the wireframe actor