[vtkusers] Determining Actor type

David Doria daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 22:04:33 EST 2010


>
> My instinct would be to iterate over the list and
> dynamic_cast<vtkCubeAxesActor*> each entry until one returned non-NULL.
>
>
What Ken said would probably work. You could also use GetClassName and do a
string comparison, like this:
http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/DetermineActorType

You've got to be careful though - in this case I would have expected the
first actor to be a "vtkActor", but it is really a vtkOpenGLActor.

Thanks,

David
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