[Paraview] Question on Image reader

[Thorsten Hater]

Thanks a lot!
I ended up last night hand-editing the Makefile generated
by CMake to include and link an additional library to the
plugin binary, but I guess there is some better method.
If someone could point me in the right direction?

Best regards
    Thorsten

Michael Jackson wrote:
> vtkImage->GetScalarPointer(); will return a void* which you can cast 
> to the appropriate type for your image data.
>
> You can then use any byte copying routine to copy the data from the 
> file into the byte array. To save yourself some of that copying if 
> your data file is setup so that you can read some header information 
> so that you know how much to allocate you can FIRST allocate the 
> vtkImageData object, get the pointer to the front of the array and 
> read directly from the file into the array.
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
>
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Thorsten Hater wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> I'm trying to implement a custom reader for ParaView 3.4.
>> The output data is of the ImageData type.
>> With the help of the ParaView guid I got as far as implementing
>> the reader, save the most important bit of filling the actual data
>> into the output object.
>> So I have got the raw binary array - or file, if this is better -
>> and the vtkImageData object.
>> How can I move my data into the vtk object?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>   Thorsten
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