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# PlaneWidget

VTKEx/Cxx/Widgets/PlaneWidget

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### Code

PlaneWidget.cxx

    #include <vtkPlaneWidget.h>
    #include <vtkRenderer.h>
    #include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
    #include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
    #include <vtkSmartPointer.h>

    int main(int, char *[])
    {
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer =
        vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();

      vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow =
        vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
      renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);

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

      vtkSmartPointer<vtkPlaneWidget> planeWidget =
          vtkSmartPointer<vtkPlaneWidget>::New();
      planeWidget->SetInteractor(renderWindowInteractor);

      planeWidget->On();

      renderWindowInteractor->Initialize();

      renderer->ResetCamera();
      renderWindow->Render();
      renderWindowInteractor->Start();

      return EXIT_SUCCESS;
    }

### CMakeLists.txt

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

    project(PlaneWidget)

    find_package(VTK COMPONENTS
      vtkvtkCommonCore
      vtkvtkInteractionStyle
      vtkvtkInteractionWidgets
      vtkvtkRenderingContextOpenGL2
      vtkvtkRenderingCore
      vtkvtkRenderingFreeType
      vtkvtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2
      vtkvtkRenderingOpenGL2 QUIET)
    if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
      message("Skipping PlaneWidget: ${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(PlaneWidget MACOSX_BUNDLE PlaneWidget.cxx )
      target_link_libraries(PlaneWidget PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
    else ()
      # include all components
      add_executable(PlaneWidget MACOSX_BUNDLE PlaneWidget.cxx )
      target_link_libraries(PlaneWidget PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
      # vtk_module_autoinit is needed
      vtk_module_autoinit(
        TARGETS PlaneWidget
        MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
        )
    endif ()

### Download and Build PlaneWidget

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

    cd PlaneWidget/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:

    ./PlaneWidget

WINDOWS USERS

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