[vtkusers] VTK Textbook 3rd Edition, VTK User's Guide 4.2, VT K 4.2 Beta

[Marcio Antonio Mathias (EDB)]

In the last Windows binary distributions Tcl support was released as a separate installation file (VTKCore & VTKTcl). What is the rule for this VTK 4.2?

/Marcio.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jarek Sacha [mailto:galicjan at yahoo.com]
Sent: segunda-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2003 17:41
To: Ken Martin; vtkusers at public.kitware.com
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK Textbook 3rd Edition, VTK User's Guide 4.2,
VTK 4.2 Beta


Windows binary distribution seems to be missing Java classes. There are
Java related DLLs (like vtkCommonJava.dll) but vtk.jar is missing.

Jarek

--- Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
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> 
> I am pleased to announce that the third edition of the VTK Textbook is
> finally in stock (we have 100 copies right now and are expecting 500
> more by Friday) and available for purchase from
> http://www.kitware.com/products/vtktextbook.html Likewise the VTK 4.2
> version of the user's/developer's guide is now available at
> http://www.kitware.com/products/vtkguide.html Finally the Beta release
> of VTK 4.2 is available from http://www.vtk.org/files/release/4.2 A
> summary of significant changes (from the FAQ) is included below. With
> VTK 4.2 we will be releasing patches during its lifetime. So there will
> be versions  4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3 etc as bugs are reported and fixed.
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> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ken
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> + Use of macros to support serialization, standardize the New method,
> and provide the Superclass typedef. 
> 
> + Subclassing of VTK classes in the python wrappers (virtual method
> hooks are not provided). 
> 
> + vtkImageWindow, vtkImager, vtkTkImageWindowWidget and their subclasses
> have been removed to reduce duplicated code and enable interation in
> ImageWindows. Now people should use vtkRenderer and vtkRenderWindow
> instead. vtkImageViewer still works as a turn key image viewing class
> although it now uses vtkRenderWindow and vtkRenderer internally instead
> of vtkImageWindow and vtkImager. 
> 
> + New class: vtkBandedPolyDataContourFilter. Creates solid colored bands
> (like you find on maps) of scalar value. 
> 
> + Event processing: Several new events to VTK were added (see
> vtkCommand.h). Also event processing can now be prioritized and aborted.
> This allows applications to manage who processes which events, and
> terminates the processing of a particular event if desired. 
> 
> + 3D Widgets: A new class vtkInteractorObserver was added to observe
> events on vtkRenderWindowInteractor. Using the new event processing
> infrastructure, multiple 3D widgets (subclasses of
> vtkInteractorObserver) can be used simultaneously to process
> interactions. Several new 3D widgets have been added including: 
> 
>   - vtkLineWidget
>   - vtkPlaneWidget
>   - vtkImagePlaneWidget
>   - vtkBoxWidget
>   - vtkSphereWidget
> 
> Besides providing a representation, widgets also provide auxiliary
> functionality such as providing transforms, implicit functions, plane
> normals, sphere radius and center, etc. 
> 
> + New class: vtkInstantiator provides a means by which one can create an
> instance of a VTK class using only the name of the class as a string. 
> 
> + New class: vtkXMLParser provides a wrapper around the Expat XML
> parsing library. A new parser can be written by subclassing from
> vtkXMLParser and providing a few simple virtual method implementations. 
> 
> + TIFF reader is now implemented using libtiff, which makes it capable
> of reading almost all available TIFF formats. The libtiff is also
> available internally as vtktiff. 
> 
> + New method (all sub-classes of vtkObject): Added a virtual function
> called NewInstance to vtkTypeMacro. NewInstance creates and returns an
> object of the same type as the current one. It does not copy any
> properties. The returned pointer is of the same type as the pointer the
> method was invoked with. This method should replace all the MakeObject
> methods scattered through VTK. 
> 
> + vtkSetObject macro is depricated for use inside the VTK. It is still a
> valid construct in projects that use VTK. Instead use
> vtkCxxSetObjectMacro which does the same thing. 
> 
> + vtkPLOT3DReader have been improved. It now supports: 
> 
>  - multigrid (each block is one output)
>  - ascii
>  - fortran-style byte counts
>  - little/big endian
>  - i-blanking (partial)
> 
> + A new vtkTextProperty class has been created, and duplicated text API
> s have been obsoleted accordingly. Check the "Text properties in VTK
> 4.2" FAQ entry for a full description of the change:
> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/vtkfaq?req=all#6.14
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> Ken Martin, PhD
> 
> Kitware Inc.
> 
> 518 371 3971 x101
> 
> 469 Clifton Corporate Pkwy
> 
> Clifton Park NY 12065
> 
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> 
> 

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