[Paraview-developers] Read Image Sequence (not as time series)

[Frank tt]

Hi Utkarsh,

I use the AnalizeNIfTI plugin.

Actually I'm trying to write an own plugin based on the AnalizeNIfTI
plugin. I'm a little bit confused with this and other file readers. I
know some file reades as they get something like a
'std::vector<std::string>' including a list of the files (choosen from
the open file dialog). 
But here the readers have 'this->GetFileName()'. When I'm following
that, im comming over the Analize header to
VTK/IO/Image/vtkImageReader2.h:

062  // Description:
063  // Specify a list of file names.  Each file must be a single slice,
064  // and each slice must be of the same size. The files must be in
the
065  // correct order.
066  // Use SetFileName when reading a volume (multiple slice), since
067  // DataExtent will be modified after a SetFileNames call.
068  virtual void SetFileNames(vtkStringArray *);
069  vtkGetObjectMacro(FileNames, vtkStringArray);
[…]
246  vtkStringArray *FileNames;
247
248  char *InternalFileName;
249  char *FileName;


I it correct that '*FileNames' include the list from the open file
dialog? And can I work with it in my plugin? E.g.:

    vtkStringArray * inputArray;
    inputArray = this->GetFileNames();

I'm actually trying to get my mind in the code, so I'm sorry for some
stupid questions.


Greetings
Frank




On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 08:47 -0400, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> Are you using the AnalyzeNIfTIIO plugin or are you using the builtin
> version (which is coming from the VisItBridge) for the NifTI files?
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Frank tt <frank.tt at einseinself.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm Frank and new in developing ParaView.
> > My Setting is a client and a server. The server is image processing and
> > data server.
> > I have a huge stack of NIfTI files (*.nii). Every file is a slice of a
> > volume (similar to DICOM).
> > When I try to load a group of NIfTI files, every file will be loaded as
> > one data set.
> >
> > Well, I want to write a file reader plugin, where I all selected files
> > (in alpha-num order) will be loaded as one volume.
> > I did a look at the example plugins and the paraview file reader
> > plugins.
> >
> > I've read in the paraview mailing list archive [1] and I think the
> > "FileSeriesReaderProxy" tag in the ServerManager xml won't work for me.
> > I also know about the ITK solution [2] to convert the data first. I
> > think this won't work in my setup, because I have limited compiling
> > possibilities on the server (where the data is.)
> >
> > I stuck to get started. Maybe someone can help me.
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
> > [1] http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2009-January/010621.html
> > [2] http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Examples/IO/VolumeFromSlices
> >
> >
> >
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