[vtkusers] Bug in vtkStructuredPointsReader and others?

David Gobbi dgobbi at irus.rri.on.ca
Tue Aug 29 12:03:12 EDT 2000


Hi Prabhu,

If this is the problem that I'm thinking of, it was fixed around a month
ago.  I tried out the examples you give below, and they appear to work
fine with the most recent VTK.

 - David

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  David Gobbi, MSc                    dgobbi at irus.rri.on.ca
  Advanced Imaging Research Group
  Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:

> hi,
> 	vtkStructuredPointsReader has a severe problem.
> 
> $ python
> >>> from VTK import *
> >>> a = vtkStructuredPointsReader ()
> >>> a.GetNormalsName ()
> Segmentation fault
> $
> 
> 	This happens for a whole host of other things as well.  Why
> doesnt it give out an exception?
> 
> 	There is a similar bug with the vtk\w*RenderWindow classes.
> The GetFileName() method causes a segfault. :(
> 
> 	I believe other Readers have similar problems.  Something
> tells me Randall Hopper reported the same thing a while back.  Has
> this been fixed.  Would a list of problematic functions be useful?
> 
> prabhu
> 
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