[vtkusers] How to put the text inside bounding box of vtkCaptionActor2D

[Amy Squillacote]

Hi Jesús,

Take a look at TestCaptionActor.tcl in VTK/Hybrid/Testing/Tcl. This test 
demonstrates putting a bounding box around some text.

- Amy

Jesús Spí­nola wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to put a text on the render window with a visible bounding box 
> around the text. I'm trying this with vtkCaptionActor2D but the text 
> always appears on top of the bounding box and never inside it.
>
> What I have to do to view the text inside the bounding box of the 
> vtkCaptionActor2D?
> Could some one post a code snippet that does this?
>
> My code looks like this
>
> vtkCaptionActor2D *captionActor = vtkCaptionActor2D::New();
> captionActor->SetCaption( "Some text....." );
> captionActor->LeaderOff();
> captionActor->SetPosition( topLeftX, topLeftY );
> captionActor->SetPosition2( bottomRightX, bottomRighY );
>
> Thanks!
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