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StyleSwitch

vtk-examples/Cxx/Interaction/StyleSwitch

Description

The class vtkInteractorStyleSwitch allows handles interactively switching between four interactor styles -- joystick actor, joystick camera, trackball actor, and trackball camera. Type 'j' or 't' to select joystick or trackball, and type 'c' or 'a' to select camera or actor. The default interactor style is joystick camera.

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Question

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Code

StyleSwitch.cxx

#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkInteractorStyleSwitch.h>
#include <vtkNamedColors.h>
#include <vtkNew.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkSphereSource.h>

int main(int, char*[])
{
  vtkNew<vtkNamedColors> colors;

  vtkNew<vtkSphereSource> sphereSource;

  // Create a mapper and actor.
  vtkNew<vtkPolyDataMapper> mapper;
  mapper->SetInputConnection(sphereSource->GetOutputPort());

  vtkNew<vtkActor> actor;
  actor->SetMapper(mapper);
  actor->GetProperty()->SetColor(colors->GetColor3d("MistyRose").GetData());

  // A renderer and render window.
  vtkNew<vtkRenderer> renderer;
  vtkNew<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow;
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
  renderWindow->SetWindowName("StyleSwitch");

  // An interactor
  vtkNew<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor;
  renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);

  // Add the actors to the scene.
  renderer->AddActor(actor);
  renderer->SetBackground(colors->GetColor3d("SlateGray").GetData());

  // Render
  renderWindow->Render();

  vtkNew<vtkInteractorStyleSwitch> style;

  renderWindowInteractor->SetInteractorStyle(style);

  // Begin mouse interaction.
  renderWindowInteractor->Start();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12 FATAL_ERROR)

project(StyleSwitch)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
)

if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "StyleSwitch: Unable to find the VTK build folder.")
endif()

# Prevent a "command line is too long" failure in Windows.
set(CMAKE_NINJA_FORCE_RESPONSE_FILE "ON" CACHE BOOL "Force Ninja to use response files.")
add_executable(StyleSwitch MACOSX_BUNDLE StyleSwitch.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(StyleSwitch PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)
# vtk_module_autoinit is needed
vtk_module_autoinit(
  TARGETS StyleSwitch
  MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)

Download and Build StyleSwitch

Click here to download StyleSwitch and its CMakeLists.txt file. Once the tarball StyleSwitch.tar has been downloaded and extracted,

cd StyleSwitch/build

If VTK is installed:

cmake ..

If VTK is not installed but compiled on your system, you will need to specify the path to your VTK build:

cmake -DVTK_DIR:PATH=/home/me/vtk_build ..

Build the project:

make

and run it:

./StyleSwitch

WINDOWS USERS

Be sure to add the VTK bin directory to your path. This will resolve the VTK dll's at run time.