[vtkusers] Translation

Gerrick Bivins gbivins at objectreservoir.com
Sat Oct 11 10:33:10 EDT 2008


Hi Prabhat,
I recently had to do this exact thing and found the easiest thing to do was
use a vtkBoxWidget for each of the actors.

http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.2/html/a00127.html

If you want to only translate, make sure to set scale and rotation to off
for the boxwidgets.

Gerrick

On 10/11/08 5:48 AM, "prabhat246" <prabhat246 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I get two different polydatas from two different algorithms.
> For both I create one vtkPolyDataMapper and vtkActor each.
> 
> now I want to allow user to be able to drag and translate one of the object
> with mouse,
> also when I drag with pressing Shift key... everything gets moved.
> 
> Although I've set
> 
>              polyActor1->SetDragable(true);
>              polyActor2->SetDragable(false);
> 
> How can I do this ??
> Also Can I write Opengl code somewhere, if I want to?? If yes then how???
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> Regards
> Prabhat Kumar Gupta




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