<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">Hey Doug,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Doug Hoppes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhoppes@mbfbioscience.com" target="_blank">dhoppes@mbfbioscience.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I’m trying to use a vtkTextActor to show some text on my screen. I have a single viewport showing. When I change the position of the text actor, it is always on the bottom left of the screen (I’m assuming that this is
0,0).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Code:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#010001">vtkSmartPointer</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><<span style="color:#010001">vtkTextActor</span>>
<span style="color:#010001">m_pLabelActor</span> = <span style="color:#010001">vtkSmartPointer</span><<span style="color:#010001">vtkTextActor</span>>::<span style="color:#010001">New</span>();<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:#010001">m_pLabelActor</span>-><span style="color:#010001">GetTextProperty</span>()-><span style="color:#010001">SetFontSize</span>(40);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:#010001">m_pLabelActor</span>-><span style="color:#010001">SetPosition2</span>(50,50);</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Try</div><div><br></div><div>m_pLabelActor->SetPosition(50, 50);</div>
<div><br></div><div>(not SetPosition2). SetPosition2 is used to specify the other corner of a rectangle when rendering to a specific size. It is a bit confusing, since this is the convention we use to specify vector length in setters/getters...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,<br>Dave</div></div></div></div>