[Insight-users] IO object creation error : PNG reader and uppercase extension.

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Ralf,

Thanks for pointing this out.

It has been logged as a bug now.

BTW, We just adopted a new Bug reporting system


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For querying, simply go to

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Regards,

   Luis


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Ralf o Floca wrote:
> Hi Rg32 and Luis,
> 
> I just got the same exception today, 4 hours before. (Could not create IO
> object for file... ; in line 101 of itkImageFileReader.txx)
> 
> In my case there was nothing wrong with the png file (it worked many times
> before).
> The reason for the exception was, that the ImageFileReader didn't found a
> capable ImageIO.
> The ImageIO for png files didn't accepted my file, because the file was
> specified in uppercase and the png ImageIO checks for "png" and don't
> recognizes "FILE.PNG". After converting the path string to lowercase, all
> worked perfect.
> 
> Maybe it is the same error in your case and it will help you (hope so). In
> your explanation the file was writen in lowercase, but may be it was only
> habit when writing the mail. If not, at least, it can be considered, if it
> is the right behavior for the ImageIO. I think it would be better if the
> string would be converted automatically before checking the existance of
> "png".
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ralf o Floca
> 
>