[vtkusers] Example of setting up global ids and retrieving selection in globalid?

[Bill Lorensen]

What do you mean by objects? You can store information as FieldData
that you can retrieve.

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Jesse Kinross-Smith
<Jesse.Kinross-Smith at bentley.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I’m pretty new to VTK, got some model rendering going on trying to get
> selection from the picker that gives us something meaningful.
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> All of our objects have internal IDs and we want to store that somehow – and
> (correct me if I’m wrong here) – I understand the best way to do this is to
> use global ids and set our own id for each object we add to the renderer,
> then get that back from the picker.
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> I’ve been struggling to get this to work though – so really wondering if
> anyone has an example they can point me to or code snippets of the key parts
> so I can get this working.
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> I’ve read through a number of posts on here from the past where GlobalIds
> have been mentioned – but never seen any snippets or examples.
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> Regards,
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> Jesse
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> Jesse Kinross-Smith
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> Senior Software Engineer - BSW
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> Bentley Systems, Fremantle
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