[vtkusers] Some TextProperty items don't work with AxesActor

[Bill Lorensen]

You changed the mode on the y axis, but you're trying to change the
size on the x axis...

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 1:23 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Looks like this composite actor does some automagic scaling unless you
>> turn it off. Try adding:
>>  axes->GetYAxisCaptionActor2D ()->GetTextActor()->SetTextScaleModeToNone();
>>
>> Bill
>
> Even after SetTextScaleModeToNone(), SetFontSize (200) doesn't seem to
> have any affect on the text size:
>
>  vtkSmartPointer<vtkAxesActor> axes = vtkSmartPointer<vtkAxesActor>::New();
>  axes->GetYAxisCaptionActor2D ()->GetTextActor()->SetTextScaleModeToNone();
>
>  vtkSmartPointer<vtkTransform> transform =
>      vtkSmartPointer<vtkTransform>::New();
>  transform->Translate(1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
>
>  // The axes are positioned with a user transform
>  axes->SetUserTransform(transform);
>
>  axes->GetXAxisCaptionActor2D()->GetCaptionTextProperty()->SetColor(1,0,0);
>  axes->SetXAxisLabelText("hello");
>  axes->GetXAxisCaptionActor2D ()->GetCaptionTextProperty()->SetFontSize (200);
>
>  renderer->AddActor(axes);
>
> The "ScaleMode" idea is a good one - rather than specify the actual
> font size it would be nice to specify the font size with respect to
> the axis arrow heads or something like that.
>
> Any further thoughts on any way to control the font size?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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