fdlyj
November 8, 2025, 5:04pm
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How to programmatically add the vtkSeedWidget or vtkSphereWidget,then execute widgetManager.enablePicking(), and you can drag the widget with the mouse
Thanks.
finetjul
November 8, 2025, 7:55pm
2
Isn’t placeWidget working ?
fdlyj
November 8, 2025, 11:15pm
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My requirement is for the program to automatically generate the vtkSeedWidget upon loading, rather than requiring a mouse click to do so
finetjul
November 9, 2025, 9:17pm
4
I made a PR to demonstrate how to programmatically place a seed widget:
master ← finetjul:seedwidget-programatic-placement
opened 09:15PM - 09 Nov 25 UTC
### Context
VTK.js is lacking an example to programmatically place a widget.
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### Results
Improve the seed widget API and enhance its example.
### Changes
- [x] Documentation and TypeScript definitions were updated to match those changes
### PR and Code Checklist
- [x] [semantic-release](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release) commit messages
- [x] Run `npm run reformat` to have correctly formatted code
### Testing
- [ ] This change adds or fixes unit tests
- [x] Tested environment:
- **vtk.js**: master
- **OS**: Windows 11
- **Browser**: Chrome
fdlyj
January 2, 2026, 4:33am
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It seems that I still can’t programmatically place a widget.
finetjul
January 4, 2026, 10:37pm
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Indeed the branch was not merged and got outdated. I just rebased it and merged. Can you try again ?