[vtkusers] set name to actor and display it with mouse hover

[Bill Lorensen]

Try this
https://lorensen.github.io/VTKExamples/site/Cxx/Widgets/BalloonWidget/


On Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 6:56 AM smurphy <sebastien.murphy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to assign names to individual actors and that the actor name
> gets displayed temporarily when the mouse is hovered over it.
>
> The closest example I could find is this one:
>
> https://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Python/Interaction/HighlightAPickedActor
>
> Instead of clicking and the sphere turning red, I would like for a text to
> be displayed next to the mouse (e.g  "this is sphere number 1"). Ideally
> when hovering, but on click is also fine.
>
> Is this, or something equivalent, possible in vtk? (I would later also try
> it in vtk.js)
>
> Thanks,
> Sebastien
>
>
>
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