[vtk-developers] Examples Guidelines

[Andrew Maclean]

Hi Bill,

The guidelines look Ok, just one comment: Is there a reason for not
specifying the std:: namespace? E.g. I just like to make it explicit
that for example I am using std::cerr and not cerr.

If you would like it I am happy to submit an example that reads
x,y,z, r,g,b,a point cloud data and produces a vtp file, I would call
it ReadXYZRGBA. Just tell me where you would like it and I will write
it up.
It will demonstrate a templated parser that skips comments and how to
create and fill a vtkPolyData structure.
Users should be able to easily modify if for reading in x,y,z, scalar
or x,y,z, scalar, r,g,b,a etc. I'll leave some hints in the code!

 Regards
   Andrew


On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> In preparation for a major upgrade to the VTK/Examples (both on the
> wiki and repository), I've started to generate an Examples guideline
> page on the wiki:
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/GuideLines
>
> Suggestions/comments are welcome.
>
> I've also been working on a mechanism for building and regression
> testing the examples once they migrate to the VTK repository. This
> mechanism uses the vtkTesting framework to regression test examples
> without changing the examples code. It uses a vtkTestingObjectFactory
> and the vtk factory facility to override the Start() method of
> vtkRenderWindowInteractor. This override allows interactive examples
> to exit with code modification. It also grabs the screen and compares
> the result to a  baseline image in VTKData/Baseline.
>
> I've tested this locally on about a 1/2 dozen examples.
>
> The factory code is checked in:
> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Examples/vtkTestingObjectFactory.cxx?view=log
> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Examples/vtkTestingObjectFactory.h?view=log
>
> This .cmake file contains the magic mojo to integrate the factory with
> the existing testing framework:
> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Examples/vtkTestingObjectFactory.cmake?view=log
>
> The changes to the CMakeLists.txt files re not checked in yet.
>
> Still some refining to do, we're getting close.
>
> Thanks to Dave Dorria for the moivation (and most of the examples work),
>
> Bill
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