vtkTextMapper

Section: Visualization Toolkit Rendering Classes

Usage

vtkTextMapper provides 2D text annotation support for VTK. It is a vtkMapper2D that can be associated with a vtkActor2D and placed into a vtkRenderer.

To use vtkTextMapper, specify an input text string.

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

  obj = vtkTextMapper

Methods

The class vtkTextMapper 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 vtkTextMapper class.