[Insight-users] 32 bit (float) TIFFs ? HDF5 ?

[Matt McCormick]

Hi Robert,

>> support is already there.  The way of doing this would be to create a
>> new ITKv4 Module, then submit it to the Insight Journal.
>
> I am so far from knowing how to do that , that it is not funny! Is there a description of how to create and build a module? I tried copying the contents of
> /dls_sw/i12/software/tomography_sources/ITK_git/MASTER/ITK/Modules/IO/HDF5

This is a good start.

>
> And making a few modifications, just to try building an identical module with a different name. Indeed it looks like a few trivial changes could at least create a module that would read our current very specific image file, though without many of the capabilities that could be enabled by hdf5, but I am stuck on the building and organization of the 'module'
>
> "Build instructions for Developers" in the Wiki is yet too incomplete to help much .
>
>
> I don't know how to build it. The CMakeLists  refers to some functions and I don't know where they are defined, nor how to access them. How does one arrange that itk_module_impl is available , how can this be tested outside the whole ITK tree?

There is a good explanation in this document under the Modularization section:

  http://midas.kitware.com/item/view/747

You put your module in Modules/External/, and CMake will automatically
pick it up.

Thanks,
Matt