Section: Visualization Toolkit Rendering Classes
Subclasses optionally implement the ImportActors, ImportCameras, ImportLights and ImportProperties or ReadData methods. An ImportBegin and ImportEnd can optionally be provided to perform Importer-specific initialization and termination. The Read method initiates the import process. If a RenderWindow is provided, its Renderer will contained the imported objects. If the RenderWindow has no Renderer, one is created. If no RenderWindow is provided, both a RenderWindow and Renderer will be created. Both the RenderWindow and Renderer can be accessed using Get methods.
To create an instance of class vtkImporter, simply invoke its constructor as follows
obj = vtkImporter
obj
is an instance of the vtkImporter class.
string = obj.GetClassName ()
int = obj.IsA (string name)
vtkImporter = obj.NewInstance ()
vtkImporter = obj.SafeDownCast (vtkObject o)
vtkRenderer = obj.GetRenderer ()
obj.SetRenderWindow (vtkRenderWindow )
vtkRenderWindow = obj.GetRenderWindow ()
obj.Read ()
obj.Update ()