Deriving from a vtk image class

[Charles Law]

<x-flowed>At 02:52 PM 8/10/99 +0200, Roland Schwarz wrote:
>Charles,
>
> >
> >In VTK3.0,  you can set any sources output to NULL,
> >(i.e. reader->SetOutput(NULL)), and continue to use the orphaned
> >output as a source of data in a pipeline.  This will work for graphics
> >or imaging.
> >
>
>what do you mean by that? I can't find a 'SetOutput' member function
>on a reader class.

Oh yes,  in VTK 2.*, the method was:
  vtkImageSource::SetCache(vtkImageCache *);

I believe the source I smart enough to create another cache if
you set its cache to NULL and update.

>Also if the number of points in a reader source is zero, the pipeline
>constantly complains about this fact, effectively stopping processing.
>
>I came over this problem when I tried to used an uninitialized reader
>(filename not yet set). I expected it to behave clean in that it should
>simply
>draw nothing when fed into the pipeline. This is not the fact however.
>
>Do you have a suggestion how to handle this?


This "Problem" is high on my list of changes for VTK 3.0.  I have
not yet gone though an removed the vtkErrorMacros and
vtkWarningMacros yet, but it is necessary before streaming will work.

To fix your problem in version 2.*, comment the macros as you run
into them.  If you find any filters that will handle empty input properly
(segmentation faults...) let me know.


Charles Law






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