vtkAnimationCue

Section: Visualization Toolkit Common Classes

Usage

vtkAnimationCue and vtkAnimationScene provide the framework to support animations in VTK. vtkAnimationCue represents an entity that changes/ animates with time, while vtkAnimationScene represents scene or setup for the animation, which consists on individual cues or other scenes.

A cue has three states: UNINITIALIZED, ACTIVE and INACTIVE. UNINITIALIZED represents an point in time before the start time of the cue. The cue is in ACTIVE state at a point in time between start time and end time for the cue. While, beyond the end time, it is in INACTIVE state. When the cue enters the ACTIVE state, StartAnimationCueEvent is fired. This event may be handled to initialize the entity to be animated. When the cue leaves the ACTIVE state, EndAnimationCueEvent is fired, which can be handled to cleanup after having run the animation. For every request to render during the ACTIVE state, AnimationCueTickEvent is fired, which must be handled to perform the actual animation.

To create an instance of class vtkAnimationCue, simply invoke its constructor as follows

  obj = vtkAnimationCue

Methods

The class vtkAnimationCue has several methods that can be used. They are listed below. Note that the documentation is translated automatically from the VTK sources, and may not be completely intelligible. When in doubt, consult the VTK website. In the methods listed below, obj is an instance of the vtkAnimationCue class.