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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dear vtkusers,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I use a vtkPlaneWidget to "probe" a volume data set and render my image </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">on a vtkBorlandRenderWindow (RenWin). This works OK and I could interact </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">with the planewidget (see attachment). The problem is that I had to set</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RenWin->GetInteractor()->SetInteractorStyle(planeWidget);</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">By doing this, I can rotate, resize, and translate the planewidget. But other</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">actors are static and never respond to any mouse action after I press "i" key</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to exit planewidget interaction.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">FYI, I have a simple class (DisableRotation) to disable the rotation by the left</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mouse button, which is inherited from vtkInteractorStyleTrackballCamera. My</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RenWin's interactor style is switched back and forth between DisableRotation &</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">vtkInteractorStyleTrackballCamera because I show different images in RenWin</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">one after another. If I set the interactorstyle to vtkInteractorStyleTrackballCamera,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I could never see my planewidget after pressing "i" key.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'd like to achieve the effect in VTK/Examples/GUI/Tcl/ProbingWithPlaneWidget.tcl,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">but do not know what is the right interactorstyle.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thank you for your help.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Yang</FONT>
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