[vtk-developers] vtkVariant::ToNumeric()

Ben Payne ben.payne at kitware.com
Wed Sep 26 17:25:26 EDT 2012


We were just bit by this as well.  +1 for removing it.

Ben

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:23 PM, David Thompson
<david.thompson at kitware.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I propose we remove vtkVariant::ToNumeric(). Either that, or it should be
> fixed so that it works on Windows as currently it causes link errors. It
> does not appear to be used anywhere in VTK and I just had to weed it out of
> some changes to ParaView, which were its first attempted use there. The
> ToDouble() or ToFloat() methods are acceptable replacements when the return
> type is known and vtkVariantExtract.h provides templated type conversion
> macros that appear to work.
>
>         Any objections?
>         David
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