[vtk-developers] Wiki Examples - commited a fix

[Bill Lorensen]

David C (too many Davids),

We won't change any existing names for sure. These changes will we all
new and exciting...

Bill


On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:12 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> Don't forget now.... We've just recently made a new printing (not quite out
> yet) of the VTK Users' guide. You might want to just double check in there
> to make sure the text is still valid w.r.t. these proposed changes....
> (I think we've tried to weed out path names and what not from the text, but
> a quick glance through figure captions and examples in the text itself might
> point out some things that we might be better off *not* renaming....)
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> We should map into the current VTK/Examples naming conventions. That
>> structure has been around for a long time. The actual location is not
>> as important as the categories.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:13 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> David,
>> >>
>> >> Actually, we need to create a reasonable number of example categories.
>> >> These will be used to organize the examples in the repository. I'll
>> >> leave this example name as is until we come up with a good
>> >> categorization.
>> >>
>> >> Bill
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Bill Lorensen
>> >> <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> David,
>> >>>
>> >>> The wiki page name should be:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Checkerboard
>> >>> and the heading should be
>> >>> Visually Compare Two Images
>> >>>
>> >>> I'll make the changes to show the way...
>> >>>
>> >>> Bill
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:57 PM, David Doria
>> >>> <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dean Inglis <dean.inglis at camris.ca>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>> Hi All,
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Im new to wiki, but I did figure how to upload a fix to the list
>> >>>>> of broken examples (visually compare two images with
>> >>>>> vtkimagecheckerboard)
>> >>>>> and then place the link from broken examples to Working with images.
>> >>>>> The only thing I couldnt figure out was how to remove the line
>> >>>>> above the code for Checkerboard.cxx that says the example is
>> >>>>> broken..
>> >>>>> a little help?  BTW, I think the recent examples initiative is
>> >>>>> excellent!
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> thanks,
>> >>>>> Dean
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Dean,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> First of all, thanks for contributing! This type of effort is what
>> >>>> will make this examples section really thrive! In the future, the
>> >>>> users list (rather than the developers list) is probably a better
>> >>>> place for this conversation.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> So it looks like what I was missing was the SetNumberOfDivisions
>> >>>> call?
>> >>>> It seems like there should be some default that would have happened
>> >>>> without that call rather than segfaulting?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Also, I believe we need to leave the Update() calls after the
>> >>>> readers:
>> >>>> jPEGReader1->SetFileName ( inputFilename1.c_str() );
>> >>>> jPEGReader1->Update();
>> >>>>
>> >>>> to ensure the data is actually read before it is used.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> To edit the description text (where it says "this is currently
>> >>>> broken...") - use the "Edit" tab at the top of the page. I went ahead
>> >>>> and did it for this one:
>> >>>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Visually_Compare_Two_Images
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks again - and keep up the good work!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> David
>> >>>> _______________________________________________
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>> >>>>
>> >
>> > Yea, I thought we would need to agree on some categories - that's why
>> > I haven't been diving in to the renaming yet. It's going to be a tough
>> > balance of being descriptive enough while not having hundreds of
>> > folders.
>> >
>> > Another thing - do we keep the structure of
>> > VTK/Examples/Mesh/Cxx/Something.cxx
>> > and
>> > VTK/Examples/Mesh/Python/Something.py
>> > ?
>> >
>> > To me it seems a bit cleaner if it is separated by language:
>> > VTK/Examples/Cxx/Mesh/Something.cxx
>> > VTK/Examples/Python/Mesh/Something.py
>> >
>> > And will we allow subfolders? i.e.(these are not necessarily
>> > reasonable, but just to illustrate)
>> > VTK/Examples/Cxx/Mesh/Operations/Subdivision.cxx
>> > VTK/Examples/Cxx/Mesh/Operations/Decimation.cxx
>> > VTK/Examples/Cxx/Mesh/Interaction/PointPicking.cxx
>> > VTK/Examples/Cxx/Mesh/Interaction/CellPicking.cxx
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > David
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