[vtkusers] Incompatibility with vtkTextMapper on Windows ?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Vincent,

	Could you send us the test you used to demonstrate the problem ?

Thanks
Mathieu

Vincent Nicolas wrote:
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>>I make a simple test code, only to show a text with the TextMapper class. On linux, everything work ok, but on Windows, it return an Exception fault in the vtkftgl.dll file ! 
>>However, it  compiles fine and work fine with Visual Studio and the binary files found on VTK website ... so I think the problem should come from the mingw compilation of VTK ...
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> I found a solution ! :-)
> I tracked the bug through all the VTK classes and the bug came from the FTCharmap class in vtkftgl. It's a problem using the FTVector class ... In fact a simple correction consist in using STL compatibility (and so don't use the FTVector class).
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> As it works using STL mode, I didn't look deeper for the bug, but it could be interresting as theses classes are for compatibility.
> 
> Vincent Nicolas
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