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BalloonWidget

Repository source: BalloonWidget

Description

This example creates a sphere and a regular polygon. The balloon text describes each object when you hover over it.

Note

This original source code for this example is here.

Other languages

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Code

BalloonWidget.cxx

#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkBalloonRepresentation.h>
#include <vtkBalloonWidget.h>
#include <vtkNamedColors.h>
#include <vtkNew.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkRegularPolygonSource.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkSphereSource.h>

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

  // Sphere.
  vtkNew<vtkSphereSource> sphereSource;
  sphereSource->SetCenter(-4.0, 0.0, 0.0);
  sphereSource->SetRadius(4.0);
  sphereSource->Update();

  vtkNew<vtkPolyDataMapper> sphereMapper;
  sphereMapper->SetInputConnection(sphereSource->GetOutputPort());

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

  // Regular Polygon.
  vtkNew<vtkRegularPolygonSource> regularPolygonSource;
  regularPolygonSource->SetCenter(4.0, 0.0, 0.0);
  regularPolygonSource->SetRadius(4.0);
  regularPolygonSource->Update();

  vtkNew<vtkPolyDataMapper> regularPolygonMapper;
  regularPolygonMapper->SetInputConnection(
      regularPolygonSource->GetOutputPort());

  vtkNew<vtkActor> regularPolygonActor;
  regularPolygonActor->SetMapper(regularPolygonMapper);
  regularPolygonActor->GetProperty()->SetColor(
      colors->GetColor3d("Cornsilk").GetData());

  // A renderer and render window.
  vtkNew<vtkRenderer> ren;
  vtkNew<vtkRenderWindow> renWin;
  renWin->AddRenderer(ren);
  renWin->SetWindowName("BalloonWidget");

  // An interactor.
  vtkNew<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> iRen;
  iRen->SetRenderWindow(renWin);

  // Create the widget.
  vtkNew<vtkBalloonRepresentation> balloonRep;
  balloonRep->SetBalloonLayoutToImageRight();

  vtkNew<vtkBalloonWidget> balloonWidget;
  balloonWidget->SetInteractor(iRen);
  balloonWidget->SetRepresentation(balloonRep);
  balloonWidget->AddBalloon(sphereActor, "This is a sphere", nullptr);
  balloonWidget->AddBalloon(regularPolygonActor, "This is a regular polygon",
                            nullptr);

  // Add the actors to the scene.
  ren->AddActor(sphereActor);
  ren->AddActor(regularPolygonActor);
  ren->SetBackground(colors->GetColor3d("SlateGray").GetData());

  // Render
  renWin->Render();

  balloonWidget->EnabledOn();

  // Begin mouse interaction.
  iRen->Initialize();
  iRen->Start();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12 FATAL_ERROR)

project(BalloonWidget)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
  CommonColor
  CommonCore
  FiltersSources
  InteractionStyle
  InteractionWidgets
  RenderingContextOpenGL2
  RenderingCore
  RenderingFreeType
  RenderingGL2PSOpenGL2
  RenderingOpenGL2
)

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

Download and Build BalloonWidget

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

cd BalloonWidget/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:

./BalloonWidget

WINDOWS USERS

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