VTK/Examples/Broken/Visualization/ScalarBarActor

This example demonstrates how to make a color bar to that reflects the range of values associated with a data set.

ScalarBarActor.cxx

#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkFloatArray.h>
#include <vtkLookupTable.h>
#include <vtkPointData.h>
#include <vtkPolyData.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkScalarBarActor.h>
#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkSphereSource.h>
 
int main (int, char *[])
{
  // Create a sphere for some geometry
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource> sphere = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource>::New();
  sphere->SetCenter(0,0,0);
  sphere->SetRadius(1);
  sphere->Update();
 
  // Create scalar data to associate with the vertices of the sphere
  int numPts = sphere->GetOutput()->GetPoints()->GetNumberOfPoints();
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkFloatArray> scalars =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkFloatArray>::New();
  scalars->SetNumberOfValues( numPts );
  for( int i = 0; i < numPts; ++i )
    {
    scalars->SetValue(i,static_cast<float>(i)/numPts);
    }
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> poly =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData>::New();
  poly->DeepCopy(sphere->GetOutput());
  poly->GetPointData()->SetScalars(scalars);
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> mapper = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();
  mapper->SetInput(poly);
  mapper->ScalarVisibilityOn();
  mapper->SetScalarModeToUsePointData();
  mapper->SetColorModeToMapScalars();
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> actor = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
  actor->SetMapper(mapper);
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkScalarBarActor> scalarBar = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkScalarBarActor>::New();
  scalarBar->SetLookupTable(mapper->GetLookupTable());
  scalarBar->SetTitle("Title");
  scalarBar->SetNumberOfLabels(4);
 
  // Create a lookup table to share between the mapper and the scalarbar
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkLookupTable> hueLut =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkLookupTable>::New();
  hueLut->SetTableRange (0, 1);
  hueLut->SetHueRange (0, 1);
  hueLut->SetSaturationRange (1, 1);
  hueLut->SetValueRange (1, 1);
  hueLut->Build();
 
  mapper->SetLookupTable( hueLut );
  scalarBar->SetLookupTable( hueLut );
 
  // Create a renderer and render window
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
 
  renderer->GradientBackgroundOn();
  renderer->SetBackground(1,1,1);
  renderer->SetBackground2(0,0,0);
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
 
  // Create an interactor
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
  renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);
 
  // Add the actors to the scene
  renderer->AddActor(actor);
  renderer->AddActor2D(scalarBar);
 
  // Render the scene (lights and cameras are created automatically)
  renderWindow->Render();
  renderWindowInteractor->Start();
 
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)

PROJECT(ScalarBarActor)

FIND_PACKAGE(VTK REQUIRED)
INCLUDE(${VTK_USE_FILE})

ADD_EXECUTABLE(ScalarBarActor ScalarBarActor.cxx)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(ScalarBarActor vtkHybrid)