[vtkusers] HELP ----OpenGL and VTK

[Dominik Szczerba]

Look at vtkSphereSource and similar to learn how to make your own 
objects. Maybe you can use it to smuggle your OpenGL code.
- Dominik

Andrew Porter wrote:
> Hi Saira,
> 
>> hi ..........andrew
>> still waiting for ur reply.
> I haven't replied because I don't know!  That's why always cc'ing the 
> list is a good idea.
> 
>> actually ..........as i explained in my previous email....I need to 
>> use OpenGl Graphics Libraries to implement my own reseach...but as 
>> initially i start my work using VTK code and i dont want to destroy that.
>> I checked that how VTK is using Opengl......in fact they are 
>> vtkOpenGl.h which is drived from vtkConfigure.h file and when i locate 
>> that file is in main root with vtkConfigure.h.in
>  >
>> So...........what they are doing in vtkConfigure.h?
>>
>> can u guide me in this matter or can u think to design own wrapper for 
>> this.
>>
> My guess would be that you need to derive your own actor or renderer (?) 
> that uses your own OpenGL code.  My suggestion would be to look at the 
> Doxygen-generated documentation for vtk 
> (http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.0/html/hierarchy.html) and work out 
> where (if anywhere) your new rendering code would fit in the class 
> hierarchy.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrew.
> 
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-- 
Dominik Szczerba, PhD
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi