[vtkusers] Remove white outline on slider text

[David Doria]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Frederic Perez <fredericpcx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> probably the key is to retrieve the properties of the text associated with
> the slider and modify it (with ShadowOff).
>
> I found this code of mine---perhaps it might help, I'm not sure:
>
>     void
>     SetSomeTextProperties(
>         vtkTextProperty* a_pTextProperty,
>         size_t a_nTextSize,
>         double a_d3TextColor[3])
>     {
>         if (!a_pTextProperty)
>             return;
>         a_pTextProperty->SetFontFamilyToArial();
>         a_pTextProperty->BoldOff();
>         a_pTextProperty->ItalicOff();
>         a_pTextProperty->ShadowOff();
>         a_pTextProperty->SetFontSize(a_nTextSize);
>         // '- Fails to work (?).
>         //    See http://markmail.org/message/xyx2y7cdwuj3aw55
>         a_pTextProperty->SetColor(a_d3TextColor);
>         a_pTextProperty->SetJustificationToCentered();
>         //a_pTextProperty->SetVerticalJustificationToCentered();
>     }
>
> Regards,
>
> Frederic Perez
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> To change the font color of a slider, I found to do this:
>> sliderRep->GetTitleProperty()->SetColor(1,0,0);//red
>>
>> However, as this example demonstrates:
>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Widgets/Cxx/Slider2D
>>
>> there is a white outline around the red text:
>> http://www.rpi.edu/~doriad/VTK_List/slider.jpg
>>
>> Anyone know how to remove the outline and simply make the text red?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David

Ah, that did the trick, thanks Frederic.

However, in vtkTextProperty, I see GetShadowColor(), but no
SetShadowColor(). Is there a way to change the shadow color to a color
that makes sense rather than simply turn it off?

Thanks,

David