StyleSwitch

VTKExamples/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.

Other Languages

See (Java)

Code

StyleSwitch.cxx

#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkPolyData.h>
#include <vtkSphereSource.h>
#include <vtkInteractorStyleSwitch.h>

int main (int, char *[])
{

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource> sphereSource = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource>::New();

  // Create a mapper and actor
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> mapper = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();
  mapper->SetInputConnection(sphereSource->GetOutputPort());

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> actor = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
  actor->SetMapper(mapper);

  // A renderer and render window
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);

  // An interactor
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
  renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);

  // Add the actors to the scene
  renderer->AddActor(actor);
  renderer->SetBackground(1,1,1); // Background color white

  // Render
  renderWindow->Render();

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkInteractorStyleSwitch> style = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkInteractorStyleSwitch>::New();

  renderWindowInteractor->SetInteractorStyle( style );

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

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

project(StyleSwitch)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
  vtkCommonCore
  vtkCommonDataModel
  vtkFiltersSources
  vtkInteractionStyle
  vtkRenderingCore
  vtkRenderingFreeType
  vtkRenderingOpenGL2 QUIET)
if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message("Skipping StyleSwitch: ${VTK_NOT_FOUND_MESSAGE}")
  return ()
endif()
message (STATUS "VTK_VERSION: ${VTK_VERSION}")
if (VTK_VERSION VERSION_LESS "8.90.0")
  # old system
  include(${VTK_USE_FILE})
  add_executable(StyleSwitch MACOSX_BUNDLE StyleSwitch.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(StyleSwitch PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
else ()
  # include all components
  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}
    )
endif ()

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.