[Paraview] Writing binary files: C/Fortran interface to VTK XML files.

[SamuelKey]

Greetings Brad,

Needing to have a C-compiler is not a problem for me; I have one.

Let me try to work with what you commit next week and see if I have
any ideas. I will be gone all next week, so you won't hear from me
until week after next. With luck you may hear from someone else
that will help keep you busy, though I suspect "busy" is not a
problem for you.

Regards,

Sam Key


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad King" <brad.king at kitware.com>
To: "SamuelKey" <samuelkey at comcast.net>
Cc: "Mathieu Malaterre" <mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com>; "paraview"
<paraview at paraview.org>; "Giuseppe Gariup" <giuseppe.gariup at gmail.com>;
"Wylie, Brian" <bnwylie at sandia.gov>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Writing binary files: C/Fortran interface to VTK XML
files.


> Hi Sam,
>
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> >    Brad, could you confirm you'll have something commited in VTK within
the next few days ?
>
> I've re-written the C interface to support multiple simultaneous writer
> instances and all 5 standard vtkDataObject types.  There is also a
> fortran interfaace wrapping the C interface, and I've successfully
> written a small .vtu file from a Fortran program.  I plan to commit the
> new C interface into VTK/IO on Monday as part of the vtkIO kit.  A C
> program will be able to include "vtkXMLWriterC.h" and link to the
> standard vtkIO library.
>
> I'm not sure what to do with the fortran interface file, though.  It is
> a .c file that has some macros at the top to configure it for a
> particular fortran compiler.  The most flexible thing to do is
> distribute this .c file with VTK in soruce form and let fortran
> programmers include it in their build with a few -D options to the C
> compiler to tell it what the fortran compiler expects.  The drawback is
> that the fortran programmer will need a C compiler to build the small
> interface to VTK.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> -Brad
>