[vtkusers] Please advise on how to learn VTK programming in C++

[Doug Henry]

I'm rather new to vtk, so a few grains of salt may be in order, but I
have found the vtk users guide to be a pretty good book.  The
visualization toolkit approach book is written in the style of a book
you would have for a college graphics course.  The users guide is the
learn by short example style with some library reference info thrown
in.

As far as the C++ crash course your looking for, I'm not sure you
would get that from either book.  Many of the examples are in Tcl
(which translates easily to the C++ API), but programming "C++ style"
is not a focus.  With that said, if your looking to buy another book I
would look to the users guide first.


On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:49:41 -0800 (PST), Shi Jin <jinzishuai at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am new to VTK and have spent a while learning it.
> The problem I have is that there isn't much of
> resources on learning VTK programming, especially in
> the OOP and C++ way. I have the book " Visualization
> toolkit : an object-oriented approach to 3D graphics"
> but the 1996 version. It doesnot contain anything on
> really how to write a good C++ code using VTK, for
> example, there is not any example showing how to
> create your own class with VTK. In my opinion, it is
> still the C way, not the C++ style, although the code
> is indeed written in C++.
> 
> Also, I would like to have more coverage on animations
> and integration with other libraries such QT.
> 
> Could anybody please point me to some direction? I
> really appreciate that.
> Thanks
> Shi
> 
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