[vtkusers] Interaction with the Actor

[Karthik Krishnan]

Kerry Loux wrote:
> Actually, taking a look at the code for the interactor style, it looks 
> like the right way to do that would be to create a subclass and create 
> new functions for the interactions that I want to override.  Is it 
> really that simple?
That is correct.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Kerry Loux <louxkr at gmail.com 
> <mailto:louxkr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     That's what I was looking for, thanks!  But what if I did want to
>     change that?  Do I need to modify the interactor style code?
>
>
>     On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Karthik Krishnan
>     <karthik.krishnan at kitware.com
>     <mailto:karthik.krishnan at kitware.com>> wrote:
>
>         Look at the interactor styles..
>         vtkInteractorStyleTrackballCamera should do that for you.. You
>         can switch to this style programmatically or interactively
>         (hit 't' on your render window).
>
>         Kerry Loux wrote:
>
>             Hello all,
>
>             I'm sure there's an easy way to do this, but I haven't
>             been able to figure it out:  I would like the user to be
>             able to rotate the object on the screen by clicking and
>             dragging - similar to most CAD software.  In other words I
>             would like the mouse clicks to control orientation rather
>             than velocity of the object.  Is there some virtual
>             function that I can overload?  Do I need to edit code that
>             is buried in VTK somewhere?  I'm using VTK with wxWidgets
>             through a wxVTKRenderWindowInteractor.  MSW, wxWidgets
>             2.8.7, VTK 5.0.4. <http://5.0.4.> <http://5.0.4.>
>
>
>             Thanks for your help!
>
>             -Kerry
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>         Karthik Krishnan
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Karthik Krishnan
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Kitware Inc,
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