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SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback

vtk-examples/Cxx/Widgets/SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback

Descriptionn

This example demonstrates how to place seed points in the scene. The seed points can be used for operations like connectivity, segmentation, and region growing.

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Code

SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback.cxx

#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkCommand.h>
#include <vtkNamedColors.h>
#include <vtkNew.h>
#include <vtkPointHandleRepresentation2D.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkProperty2D.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkSeedRepresentation.h>
#include <vtkSeedWidget.h>
#include <vtkSphereSource.h>

namespace {
class vtkSeedCallback : public vtkCommand
{
public:
  static vtkSeedCallback* New()
  {
    return new vtkSeedCallback;
  }

  vtkSeedCallback()
  {
  }

  virtual void Execute(vtkObject*, unsigned long event, void* calldata)
  {
    if (event == vtkCommand::PlacePointEvent)
    {
      std::cout << "Point placed, total of: "
                << this->SeedRepresentation->GetNumberOfSeeds() << std::endl;
    }
    if (event == vtkCommand::InteractionEvent)
    {
      if (calldata)
      {
        std::cout << "Interacting with seed : "
                  << *(static_cast<int*>(calldata)) << std::endl;
      }
    }

    std::cout << "List of seeds (Display coordinates):" << std::endl;
    for (vtkIdType i = 0; i < this->SeedRepresentation->GetNumberOfSeeds(); i++)
    {
      double pos[3];
      this->SeedRepresentation->GetSeedDisplayPosition(i, pos);
      std::cout << "(" << pos[0] << " " << pos[1] << " " << pos[2] << ")"
                << std::endl;
    }
  }

  void SetRepresentation(vtkSeedRepresentation* rep)
  {
    this->SeedRepresentation = rep;
  }

private:
  vtkSeedRepresentation* SeedRepresentation;
};
} // namespace

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

  vtkNew<vtkSphereSource> sphereSource;
  sphereSource->Update();

  // Create a mapper and actor
  vtkNew<vtkPolyDataMapper> mapper;
  mapper->SetInputConnection(sphereSource->GetOutputPort());
  vtkNew<vtkActor> actor;
  actor->SetMapper(mapper);
  actor->GetProperty()->SetColor(colors->GetColor3d("MidnightBlue").GetData());

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

  renderer->SetBackground(colors->GetColor3d("SlateGray").GetData());
  renderer->AddActor(actor);

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

  // Create the representation
  vtkNew<vtkPointHandleRepresentation2D> handle;
  handle->GetProperty()->SetColor(colors->GetColor3d("Red").GetData());
  vtkNew<vtkSeedRepresentation> rep;
  rep->SetHandleRepresentation(handle);

  // Seed widget
  vtkNew<vtkSeedWidget> seedWidget;
  seedWidget->SetInteractor(renderWindowInteractor);
  seedWidget->SetRepresentation(rep);

  vtkNew<vtkSeedCallback> seedCallback;
  seedCallback->SetRepresentation(rep);
  seedWidget->AddObserver(vtkCommand::PlacePointEvent, seedCallback);
  seedWidget->AddObserver(vtkCommand::InteractionEvent, seedCallback);

  renderWindow->Render();

  renderWindowInteractor->Initialize();
  renderWindow->Render();
  seedWidget->On();

  renderWindowInteractor->Start();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12 FATAL_ERROR)

project(SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
)

if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback: 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(SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback MACOSX_BUNDLE SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)
# vtk_module_autoinit is needed
vtk_module_autoinit(
  TARGETS SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback
  MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)

Download and Build SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback

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

cd SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback/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:

./SeedWidgetWithCustomCallback

WINDOWS USERS

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