[Insight-developers] GDCM: writing files without extensions

[Lorensen, William E (Research)]

Actually, I looked a little further into this. I think that if the user
specifies an ImageIO on write, that the CanWriteFile should not be called in
itk. This assumes that the user knows what he/she is doing.

But, I need to think a bit more about the ramifications and generality of
this.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 2:07 PM
To: Lorensen, William E (Research)
Cc: insight-developers at public.kitware.com
Subject: Re: [Insight-developers] GDCM: writing files without extensions


Lorensen, William E (Research) wrote:
> Mathieu,
> GDCM will not write files unless they vae the dcm extension. I would like
to
> remove this restriction if SetImageIO is applied to the writer.
> 
> GDCM will read files without extensions (this is good).
> 
> Any objections?

Go for it. This was also an annoyance for me. I have tons of dicom file 
without extension, and I could not even read since it stoped at the 
extension matching.

BTW, if GDCM made it into the ImageFactory how are we going to handle 
that (without file extension) ? I believe we are defaulting on another 
type of image if no extension is found.

Mathieu