# ContourWidget

VTKExamples/Python/Widgets/ContourWidget

### Description

Click on the white dots to select them and to deform the red line.

- Contributed by Jim McCusker

### Code

ContourWidget.py

    #!/usr/bin/python

    import vtk
    import random
    import sys
    import math

    # Create the RenderWindow, Renderer and both Actors

    renderer = vtk.vtkRenderer()
    renderWindow = vtk.vtkRenderWindow()
    renderWindow.AddRenderer(renderer)

    interactor = vtk.vtkRenderWindowInteractor()
    interactor.SetRenderWindow(renderWindow)

    renderer.SetBackground(0.1, 0.2, 0.4)
    renderWindow.SetSize(600, 600)

    contourRep = vtk.vtkOrientedGlyphContourRepresentation()
    contourRep.GetLinesProperty().SetColor(1, 0, 0) # set color to red

    contourWidget = vtk.vtkContourWidget()
    contourWidget.SetInteractor(interactor)
    contourWidget.SetRepresentation(contourRep)
    contourWidget.On()

    for arg in sys.argv:
        if "-Shift" == arg:
            contourWidget.GetEventTranslator().RemoveTranslation(
                vtk.vtkCommand.LeftButtonPressEvent)
            contourWidget.GetEventTranslator().SetTranslation(
                vtk.vtkCommand.LeftButtonPressEvent,
                vtk.vtkWidgetEvent.Translate )
        elif "-Scale" == arg:
            contourWidget.GetEventTranslator().RemoveTranslation(
                vtk.vtkCommand.LeftButtonPressEvent )
            contourWidget.GetEventTranslator().SetTranslation(
                vtk.vtkCommand.LeftButtonPressEvent,
                vtk.vtkWidgetEvent.Scale )

    pd = vtk.vtkPolyData()

    points = vtk.vtkPoints()
    lines = vtk.vtkCellArray()

    for i in range(0,21):
        angle = 2.0 * math.pi * i / 20.0
        points.InsertPoint(i, 0.1 * math.cos(angle),
                            0.1 * math.sin(angle), 0.0 )
        lines.InsertNextCell(i)

    pd.SetPoints(points)
    pd.SetLines(lines)

    contourWidget.Initialize(pd, 1)
    contourWidget.Render()
    renderer.ResetCamera()
    renderWindow.Render()

    interactor.Initialize()
    interactor.Start()

    contourWidget.Off()