[vtk-developers] VTK Modular: Classes that seg fault for xxx::New();

[Bill Lorensen]

That topic fixes about 10 seg faults. Does not fix the xxxView seg
faults which have trouble with Renderer and RenderWindow.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Marcus,
>>
>> I generated a short main program for every vtk class that defined a
>> static New method.
>> The program just does a
>> vtkXXX *foo = vtkXXX::New();
>>
>> A number of classes seg faulted. I looked at a few in the debugger.
>> Most are failing to create a vtkTextMapper, vtkRenderer and/or
>> vtkRenderWindow.
>>
>> The following 23 classes seg faulted:
>>
>> vtkAffineRepresentation2D
>> vtkBalloonRepresentation
>> vtkBiDimensionalRepresentation2D
>> vtkGeoCamera
>> vtkGeoView
>> vtkGeoView2D
>> vtkGraphLayoutView
>> vtkHierarchicalGraphView
>> vtkIcicleView
>> vtkImageViewer2
>> vtkLabeledTreeMapDataMapper
>> vtkLegendScaleActor
>> vtkParallelCoordinatesView
>> vtkRenderedSurfaceRepresentation
>> vtkResliceCursorLineRepresentation
>> vtkResliceCursorThickLineRepresentation
>> vtkResliceImageViewer
>> vtkSliderRepresentation2D
>> vtkSphereRepresentation
>> vtkTexturedButtonRepresentation2D
>> vtkTreeAreaView
>> vtkTreeMapView
>> vtkTreeRingView
>>
>> Hope this helps resolve the factory issue.
>>
> See the topic http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/485/ that should
> reduce the length of this list some. We certainly need to address the
> underlying issue of small application includes X from module A, module
> A uses interface from module B that is implemented by module C.
>
> We do not have a mechanism for propagating C's auto initialize call up
> through B without asking you to include a header from B. I suspect
> several of the view classes hit this as they initialize the window,
> interactor etc and the client code never has to. We have a few ideas
> we would like to discuss on Monday to ensure full initialization.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus



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