[vtk-developers] vtkImageReader2

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:23 AM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks like vtkImageReader2 is a superclass for many of the image
> reader classes. However, it seems that you can instantiate it and use
> it without errors, but it just doesn't do anything:
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Broken/IO/ImageReader2
>
> Is there a way to make one of the functions pure virtual so that it is
> obvious and impossible to instantiate directly? I think that would
> eliminate some confusion.
>
Can't you just remove the New method and mark it as abstract if that
is your goal? It would need marking as ABSTACT in the build system
too.

Marcus