vtkVectorText Class Reference

#include <vtkVectorText.h>

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Detailed Description

create polygonal text

vtkVectorText generates vtkPolyData from an input text string. Besides the ASCII alphanumeric characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, vtkVectorText also supports ASCII punctuation marks. (The supported ASCII character set are the codes (33-126) inclusive.) The only control character supported is the line feed character "\n", which advances to a new line.

To use thie class, you normally couple it with a vtkPolyDataMapper and a vtkActor. In this case you would use the vtkActor's transformation methods to position, orient, and scale the text. You may also wish to use a vtkFollower to orient the text so that it always faces the camera.

See also:: vtkTextMapper vtkCaptionActor2D

Created by:

Martin, Ken

CVS contributions (if > 5%):

Martin, Ken (99%)

CVS logs (CVSweb):

.cxx (/Hybrid/vtkVectorText.cxx)
.h (/Hybrid/vtkVectorText.h)

Examples:: vtkVectorText (Examples)

Tests:: vtkVectorText (Tests)

Definition at line 55 of file vtkVectorText.h.

Public Types

typedef vtkPolyDataSource Superclass

Public Member Functions

virtual const char * GetClassName ()

virtual int IsA (const char *type)

void PrintSelf (ostream &os, vtkIndent indent)

virtual void SetText (const char *)

virtual char * GetText ()

Static Public Member Functions

vtkVectorText * New ()

int IsTypeOf (const char *type)

vtkVectorText * SafeDownCast (vtkObject *o)

Protected Member Functions

vtkVectorText ()

~vtkVectorText ()

void Execute ()

Protected Attributes

char * Text

char * Letters [127]

Member Typedef Documentation

typedef vtkPolyDataSource vtkVectorText::Superclass

Reimplemented from vtkPolyDataSource.
Definition at line 59 of file vtkVectorText.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

vtkVectorText::vtkVectorText ( ) [protected]

vtkVectorText::~vtkVectorText ( ) [protected]

Member Function Documentation

vtkVectorText* vtkVectorText::New ( ) [static]

Create an object with Debug turned off, modified time initialized to zero, and reference counting on.
Reimplemented from vtkAlgorithm.

virtual const char* vtkVectorText::GetClassName ( ) [virtual]

Reimplemented from vtkPolyDataSource.

int vtkVectorText::IsTypeOf ( const char * type ) [static]

Return 1 if this class type is the same type of (or a subclass of) the named class. Returns 0 otherwise. This method works in combination with vtkTypeRevisionMacro found in vtkSetGet.h.
Reimplemented from vtkPolyDataSource.

virtual int vtkVectorText::IsA ( const char * type ) [virtual]

Return 1 if this class is the same type of (or a subclass of) the named class. Returns 0 otherwise. This method works in combination with vtkTypeRevisionMacro found in vtkSetGet.h.
Reimplemented from vtkPolyDataSource.

vtkVectorText* vtkVectorText::SafeDownCast ( vtkObject * o ) [static]

Reimplemented from vtkPolyDataSource.

void vtkVectorText::PrintSelf ( ostream & os,

vtkIndent indent

) [virtual]

Methods invoked by print to print information about the object including superclasses. Typically not called by the user (use Print() instead) but used in the hierarchical print process to combine the output of several classes.
Reimplemented from vtkPolyDataSource.

virtual void vtkVectorText::SetText ( const char * ) [virtual]

Set/Get the text to be drawn.

virtual char* vtkVectorText::GetText ( ) [virtual]

Set/Get the text to be drawn.

void vtkVectorText::Execute ( ) [protected, virtual]

This method is the old style execute method
Reimplemented from vtkSource.

Member Data Documentation

char* vtkVectorText::Text [protected]

Definition at line 73 of file vtkVectorText.h.

char* vtkVectorText::Letters[127] [protected]

Definition at line 74 of file vtkVectorText.h.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

dox/Hybrid/vtkVectorText.h


Public Types
typedef vtkPolyDataSource	Superclass
Public Member Functions
virtual const char *	GetClassName ()
virtual int	IsA (const char *type)
void	PrintSelf (ostream &os, vtkIndent indent)

virtual void	SetText (const char *)
virtual char *	GetText ()
Static Public Member Functions
vtkVectorText *	New ()
int	IsTypeOf (const char *type)
vtkVectorText *	SafeDownCast (vtkObject *o)
Protected Member Functions
	vtkVectorText ()
	~vtkVectorText ()
void	Execute ()
Protected Attributes
char *	Text
char *	Letters [127]