vtkView

Section: Visualization Toolkit View Classes

Usage

vtkView is the superclass for views. A view is generally an area of an application's canvas devoted to displaying one or more VTK data objects. Associated representations (subclasses of vtkDataRepresentation) are responsible for converting the data into a displayable format. These representations are then added to the view.

For views which display only one data object at a time you may set a data object or pipeline connection directly on the view itself (e.g. vtkGraphLayoutView, vtkLandscapeView, vtkTreeMapView). The view will internally create a vtkDataRepresentation for the data.

A view has the concept of linked selection. If the same data is displayed in multiple views, their selections may be linked by setting the same vtkAnnotationLink on their representations (see vtkDataRepresentation).

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

  obj = vtkView

Methods

The class vtkView 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 vtkView class.