[vtkusers] vtkChartXY and Pre-Existing Renderer

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:24 AM, list user <quasilister at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to attach a vtkChartXY object to an existing Renderer.  A
> similar issue has come up on the listerv where it was suggested to remove an
> existing Renderer and attach the vtkChartXY to vtkContextView and use
> vtkContextView's Renderer:
> http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/2011-February/115121.html
>
> For my application, I am using the same Renderer to switch between different
> "views" of actors (Cell View, Concentration View, etc) and actors are
> removed and added.  Is there away to accommodate my current setup of a
> single Renderer?
>
> using vtk 5.8.0

You can use the vtkContextActor, and would need to set up the
interactor style etc in much the same way as vtkContextView does. The
vtkContextActor has a scene that can then have a chart added to it.

Marcus