[vtkusers] Re: Help with compositing the render window

[Goodwin Lawlor]

Hi Chris,

Have a look at this example:
http://www.bioengineering-research.com/vtk/BackgroundImage.tcl

hth

Goodwin

"Chris Hughes" <chughes at informatics.bangor.ac.uk> wrote in message 
news:200601082304.k08N4o20087737 at mailhost.informatics.bangor.ac.uk...
> Hi guys,
>
> I hope that I have posted this message in the right place. I am writing an
> application using VTK and Java. My application uses VTK to create a window
> containing some rendered objects. What I want to do is draw an image to 
> the
> background of the window so that I can still rotate the objects without 
> the
> background moving from the window. My question is - is it possible to put 
> an
> image onto the back of the vtkRenderWindow? Or is there some way to make 
> the
> background transparent and layer up the images on a JPanel?
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
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