[vtkusers] GetTextProperty()->SetOrientation(90.0)

[Amy Squillacote]

There's a VTK test in Rendering/Testing/Tcl that uses this: 
TestTextActor3D.tcl.  It uses a vtkTextActor3D.  Maybe that would 
solve your problem.

- Amy

At 03:45 PM 11/10/2005, Scott J. Pearson wrote:
>I was elated when I saw that VTK 5.0 allowed us to orient our text along a
>non-horizontal line. However, I have yet to see this working. The following
>code does not reorient my text properly. Despite a hypothetical 90 deg
>rotation, the text is horizontal, not vertical. Does anyone know why?
>
>vtkTextMapper *mapper = vtkTextMapper::New();
>mapper->SetInput("Testing");
>mapper->GetTextProperty()->SetOrientation(90.0);
>vtkTextActor *actor = vtkTextActor::New();
>actor->SetMapper(mapper);
>actor->SetPosition(50, 50);
>renderer->AddActor2D(actor);
>
>Thanks,
>Scott
>
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>Scott J. Pearson
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>Clemson University     864.656.6389     scottjp at clemson.edu
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