[vtk-developers] vtkStringArray and vtkImageReader

[Mathieu Malaterre]

David Gobbi wrote:
> I've finished adding the vtkImageReader2::SetFileNames(vtkStringArray *) and will be committing to
> CVS unless there are objections.  The bugtracker entry is here:
> 
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2834
> 
> The next thing to do is add some filename-list generators.  It would be very convenient to be able
> to do this:
> 
>  reader->SetFilePattern("/data/dir/*.sli")
> 
> The SetFileNamePattern optionally generate filenames using wildcards instead of format strings, if
> the string contained "*" instead of "%".  I'm hesitant to further complicate the vtkImageReader2
> API, but it sure would be nice to have something like this...
> 
> 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.

I would rather see an ITK like approach, it has proven to be very 
customizable in particular for the DICOM case as you mention.

Thanks
Mathieu