[vtkusers] Cursors on VTK charts

Marcus D. Hanwell marcus.hanwell at kitware.com
Thu Dec 6 11:20:30 EST 2012


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Mark Perrego <mark.perrego at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently evaluating VTK for some charting and possible
> visualization work.  From what I've read here the Charts API is the
> recommended API for doing this work.  Does the Charts API support
> cursors (vtkCursor2D or otherwise)?  My attempts to combine the
> example programs has failed, but there is a strong chance that this is
> due to my lack of understanding.  There does seem to be a bit of a
> split between the charts and the rest of VTK in the sense that
> vtkChart does not derive from vtkProp or vtkActor, so I am concerned
> that the standard VTK cursors will not work with the Charts API.
>
We don't have cursors in the chart API right now. It probably wouldn't
be hard to add a scene element that could be placed and moved around
by the user, but there is no work in that area that I am aware of.

Marcus



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