[vtkusers] Rendering Text - vtkTextActor and AddActor2D - Crash

[David Lonie]

Great, glad you got is working :)

Dave

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Ram Sampath <ram at centroidpic.com> wrote:

>
> Thank you for the response.
>
> Sorry the problem was on my end . I was including the vtkRenderingFreeType
> library in the linkage but I missed to include the line
> VTK_MODULE_INIT(vtkRenderingFreeType).
>
> VTK_MODULE_INIT(vtkRenderingOpenGL);
> VTK_MODULE_INIT(vtkInteractionStyle);
> VTK_MODULE_INIT(vtkRenderingFreeType);
>
> are the modules  which were needed by my code to make it work.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Ram.
>
> ---
> On Jun 30, 2015, at 6:39 AM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> It works for me here. That message means that the vtkRenderingFreeType
> library isn't being linked to the application. That library provides the
> default implementation of the vtkTextRenderer interface.
>
> Can you add the line:
>
> message("VTK_LIBRARIES: ${VTK_LIBRARIES}")
>
> to your CMakeLists.txt, rerun cmake, and send us the output? Also, what
> version of VTK is being used?
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Ram Sampath <ram at centroidpic.com> wrote:
> Hello :
>
>  I am trying to compile and run the vtk hello world with text example
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Visualization/DrawText
>
>  and when I run it I get the following error with a crash.
> Rendering\Core\vtkTextActor.cxx, line 110
> vtkTextActor (0000000003B31F10): Failed getting the TextRenderer instance!
>
>
>  Has anyone had the same problem before and has a fix ?  It seems like the
> text renderer is failing on initialize .
>
> Thank you in advance
> Ram.
>
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