[vtkusers] Change properties of axis titles for a vtkCubeAxesRepresentation

Wed Aug 21 08:27:59 EDT 2013

Hi Sebastien,

I have no clue what might be the issue here.
Another thought could be to try to change the bounds to force the
regeneration of the cube axis.
This certainly might be a bug but as a workaround I don't see anything else
that you could do for now.

Good luck,

Seb

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Sébastien PULVERAIL
<skeleton18 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Seb? Bill? and others :)
> Do you have an idea about what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Seb
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Sébastien PULVERAIL <skeleton18 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Yes, you're right: the vtkCubeAxesRepresentation does not allow me to
>> have different colors for the axis and its title..
>>
>> That's why I implement a new class (here I will name it
>> vtkCubeAxesRepresentation2) which inherits from vtkCubeAxesRepresentation..
>> vtkCubeAxesRepresentation2 gives methods to change separately the colors
>> of the axis and its title.
>>
>> Seb
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Sebastien Jourdain <
>> sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was talking about the API on the representation not the CubeAxesActor.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Sébastien PULVERAIL <
>>> skeleton18 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Seb,
>>>>
>>>> I can assure you that you can have different colors between the axis
>>>> and its title. I investigate a little bit more on my code..
>>>> If I execute the following code, only the label colors (blue) and the
>>>> axis color (red) change.
>>>>
>>>>     this->CubeAxesActor->GetXAxesLinesProperty()->SetColor(1.0, 0.0,
>>>> 0.0);
>>>>     this->CubeAxesActor->GetTitleTextProperty(0)->SetColor(0.0, 1.0,
>>>> 0.0);
>>>>     this->CubeAxesActor->GetLabelTextProperty(0)->SetColor(0.0, 0.0,
>>>> 1.0);
>>>>
>>>> Then, just after, I run the following code:
>>>>
>>>>     this->CubeAxesActor->SetXTitle("X2");
>>>>
>>>> And the title is correctly update, and the color (green) is also
>>>> changed...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I already try the call to ->Modified() on first the vtkCubeAxesActor
>>>> and then on the vtkCubeAxesRepresentation.. But nothing change on the view..
>>>>
>>>> Seb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Sebastien Jourdain <
>>>> sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Seb,
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think vtkCubeAxesRepresentation allow you to have different
>>>>> color between the axis and its title. On top of that, to force the
>>>>> regeneration of the axes, you can call ->Modified() on the
>>>>> vtkCubeAxesActor
>>>>>
>>>>> Seb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Sébastien PULVERAIL <
>>>>> skeleton18 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, thank you for your help.. But I didn't express correctly..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The people I work for make their own software based on the Paraview's
>>>>>> plugins.. They use vtkCubeAxesRepresentation and vtkCubeAxisActor to make
>>>>>> their cube axes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They have a little bug when updating the color of the axis title:
>>>>>> they can correctly instantiate a new cube axes (as in the example you gave
>>>>>> me), but when they want to change the color of an axis directly from the
>>>>>> GUI: the axis itself, the labels change color, but not the title.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, it is not during the initialization that I have a problem, but
>>>>>> when I want to change the color inside the GUI.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry for the misunderstanding.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Seb
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Bill Lorensen <
>>>>>> bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just changed this example to illustrate how to set axis properties:
>>>>>>> http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Visualization/CubeAxesActor
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> NOTE: the tarball will not be updated until tonight but you can
>>>>>>> still cut/paste the code from the wiki page.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bill
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Sébastien PULVERAIL <
>>>>>>> skeleton18 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes, Sorry.. I don't copy-paste my code because it's confidential,
>>>>>>>> and I forgot to put the index for the GetTitleTextProperty function.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can you provide me the code to show how you test it please? By this
>>>>>>>> way, I will be able to compare with my own code.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Seb
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Bill Lorensen <
>>>>>>>> bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> GetTitleTextProperty requires an argument specifying an axis.
>>>>>>>>> The code you provided does not compile.
>>>>>>>>> Try
>>>>>>>>> this->CubeAxesActor->GetTitleTextProperty(0)->SetColor(1.0, 0.0,
>>>>>>>>> 0.0);
>>>>>>>>> this->CubeAxesActor->GetTitleTextProperty(0)->GetColor(); // Print
>>>>>>>>> 1.0 0.0 0.0
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> this->CubeAxesActor->GetTitleTextProperty(0)->SetFontFamily(VTK_ARIAL);
>>>>>>>>> this->CubeAxesActor->GetTitleTextProperty(0)->GetFontFamily(); //
>>>>>>>>> Print VTK_ARIAL
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> works for me.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Sébastien PULVERAIL <
>>>>>>>>> skeleton18 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I have been trying to change the properties (color and font) of
>>>>>>>>>> the title axes for a vtkCubeAxesRepresentation using the setter functions.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> But, nothing changed in the representation. However, when I call
>>>>>>>>>> the getter functions, the changes have been made.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Is there some kind of an update function, or a modified one that
>>>>>>>>>> I need to call?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Here is the piece of code I use:
>>>>>>>>>> this->CubeAxesActor->GetTitleTextProperty()->SetColor(1.0, 0.0,
>>>>>>>>>> 0.0);
>>>>>>>>>> this->CubeAxesActor->GetTitleTextProperty()->GetColor(); // Print
>>>>>>>>>> 1.0 0.0 0.0
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> this->CubeAxesActor->GetTitleTextProperty()->SetFontFamily(VTK_ARIAL);
>>>>>>>>>> this->CubeAxesActor->GetTitleTextProperty()->GetFontFamily(); //
>>>>>>>>>> Print VTK_ARIAL
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>>>>>> Seb
>>>>>>>>>>
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