[vtkusers] How I can use vtkImplicitPlaneWidget

[Bill Lorensen]

I don't think we should add broken examples. If they are broken
because there is a bug, then we should report the bug.

If we add an example, we should spend some effort to get to work.
Usually, the effort is small. This one was a but more effort because
the example was not only working, but failed to demonstrate how the
widget might be useful even if the example worked.

Bill

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:58 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> I fixed your example
>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Widgets/ImplicitPlaneWidget2
>>
>> 1) It now works.
>> 2) It does something useful and possibly informative.
>> 3) I generalized it to use either a sphere or user supplied polydata.
>> We should consider using the same logic in other examples that use
>> sphere source (where it adds utility to the example.)
>>
>> Cost, 2 hours @ $100/hr = $200.
>>
>> No charge,
>>
>> Bill
>
> 1) Thanks.
> 2) No need for this type of comment. It was in the "broken" section,
> so there was no mystery that it was not completed. I still claim that
> once and a while someone will come along and fix these (besides you or
> me).
> 3) This is a good idea. I think I mentioned it the other day.
>
> My hope is still that someone will need these things directly for
> their work. Then the 2 hours @ $100/hr would be expensed to their
> company for good reason, and with 10 minutes of extra effort they can
> upload what they've figured out to the wiki. After this happens a
> finite number of times, it will no longer be necessary because
> everything in the toolkit will be explained and demonstrated.
>
> David
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