[vtkusers] help! problems saving as ppm

[Andy Cedilnik]

Try:

  vtkWindowToImageFilter w2i
  w2i SetInput renWin 
  vtkPGMWriter w
  w SetInput [ w2i GetOutput ]
  w SetFileName "whatever.ppm"
  w Write

			Andy

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 11:08, Alia wrote:
> 
> 
> hello
> 
> I'm trying to save the contents of a rendering window as a PPM file,
> using vtk40 and windows.
> 
> However I keep getting the error
> 
> ' Error: Object named: renWin, could not find requested method:
> SetFileName or the method was called with incorrect arguments'
> 
> when it hits this bit of the script.
>         renWin SetFileName $name
>         renWin SaveImageAsPPM
> 
> (The whole of the sample script I'm using can be found at:
> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~cs5630/intro/ballanim.tcl.html )
> 
> Has anybody come across this before?  I would be extremely grateful for
> some help on the matter.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alia
> 
> 
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