I agree with Michael, because this is a feature that I also need with vtkAnnotatedCubeActor. Some months ago I asked for a similar question, and the answer was to write my own vtkAnnotatedCuberActor with the features I needed.
<br><br>I think it's better if this class is enhanced in the official release rather than every user makes its own hack.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Knopke</b> <
<a href="mailto:Michael.Knopke@gmx.de">Michael.Knopke@gmx.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi Mark,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">unfortunately there is no official way to have an initial
rotation, even though this would be highly favorable.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Some guy stated that you can try getting all the props of
vtkAnnotedCubeActor and try to modify them, but I don't know how to do
this with a normal vtkProp.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The usertransforms will be ignored, because vtkOrientationWidget
will change initial orientation afterwards.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Actually I think we need a modified version of
vtkOrientationWidget to allow intial rotation.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Regards</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Michael</span></font></p>
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