[vtk-developers] vtkStringArray and vtkImageReader
David Gobbi
dgobbi at atamai.com
Sun Feb 5 13:17:56 EST 2006
--- Michael Halle <mhalle at bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > The generic solution is to add a "vtkFileNameGenerator", similar to
> > the way ITK does things. For
> > VTK I would build the different kinds of file name generation
> > (wildcard, numbered series,
> > archetype) into one single class rather than create a class hierarchy.
> > There would eventually be
> > a vtkDICOMFileNameGenerator specifically for handling DICOM series.
>
> Maybe not even a "vtkFileNameGenerator", but a "vtkNameGenerator".
> The interface is generic enough to iterate over other
> string-described resources. Subclasses could look for actual
> files and such.
>
> Too general?
A generic iterator would probably go into Utilities/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx instead of into its own
VTK class.
- David
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