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

[Jesús Spí­nola]

I resolved the problem, it was because of the coordinates, by default they
are relative among them ( the attachment point, the position and the
position2 ) and I didn't take that into account.

On 3/8/07, Amy Squillacote <amy.squillacote at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> 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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