[Paraview] Displaying texts from pointdata

[Nehme Bilal]

The "Selection Inspector" of ParaView can probably do what you want:
http://paraview.org/OnlineHelpCurrent/SelectionInspector.html

Nehme
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, ChiaWeng Boon <chiaweng at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to display the ID numbers of my bodies.  They are saved
> as a Point Data as follows from vtkUnstructuredGridWriter.  Is there a
> way to display the IDs as texts using Paraview?  I've been trying out
> different Filters for hours but am unsuccessful.
>
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkFloatArray> spheresId =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkFloatArray>::New();
>        spheresId->SetNumberOfComponents(1);
>        spheresId->SetName("id");
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkUnstructuredGrid> spheresUg =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkUnstructuredGrid>::New();
>
> FOR EVERY BODY:
> spheresUg->SetPoints(spheresPos);
> spheresUg->SetCells(VTK_VERTEX, spheresCells);
> spheresId->InsertNextValue(b->getId());
> spheresUg->GetPointData()->AddArray(spheresId);
> END FOR
>
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkXMLUnstructuredGridWriter> writer =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkXMLUnstructuredGridWriter>::New();
> string fn=fileName+"spheres."+lexical_cast<string>(scene->iter)+".vtu";
> writer->SetFileName(fn.c_str());
> writer->SetInput(spheresUg);
> writer->Write();
>
>
> Yours faithfully,
>
> Boon
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