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

[Frank TT]

Thx. I'll try it.

I don't need my own plugin. Your suggestion looks like it's possible to
try this with the existing AnalizeNIfTI plugin? 
(I just want to make a 3D volume out of a stack of 2D foo%03d.nii
files.)

Frank


On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 10:47 -0400, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: 
> Frank,
> 
> If you're writing your own reader, I'd suggesting adding
> AddFileName(), RemoveAllFileNames() methods to your class and then
> using the following property for your XML.
> 
>  <StringVectorProperty
>                             clean_command="RemoveAllFileNames"
>                             command="AddFileName"
>                             name="FileName"
>                             number_of_elements="1"
>                             panel_visibility="never"
>                             repeat_command="1">
>         <FileListDomain name="files" />
>         <Documentation>The list of files to be read by the
>         reader.</Documentation>
>  </StringVectorProperty>
> 
> The "repeat_command" is the thing that'll tell ParaView that this
> property can take an entire file list. Then you're free in you C++
> code to arrange the files in whichever order you deem fit and process
> them.
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Frank tt <frank.tt at einseinself.org> wrote:
> > 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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