[vtkusers] vtkTypeRevisionMacro & New( )

[Michael Thomas]

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Hi Guys,   

    I am trying to use the latest vtkDICOMImageReader class but when I compile the app, I get linker errors related to vtkTypeRevisionMacro & New( )functions in the vtkDICOMImageReader.h file.

== CUT ==

class CTestDicomImage : public vtkImageReader2
{
 public:
  static CTLADicomImage *New();
  vtkTypeRevisionMacro( CTLADicomImage, vtkImageReader2);
  .....
  .....
  .....
}

== CUT ==

The linker errors I get are these...
 
TLADicomImage.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "protected: virtual void __thiscall CTestDicomImage::CollectRevisions(class ostream &)" (?CollectRevisions at CTestDicomImage@@MAEXAAVostream@@@Z)
TLADicomImage.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static class CTestDicomImage * __cdecl CTestDicomImage::New(void)" (?New at CTestDicomImage@@SAPAV1 at XZ)

As you guys would have noticed, I am not using the vtkDICOMImageReader class as is... Using them as is gives me several linker errors. So I created a dummy C++ class on VC++ 6.0 & used the content of vtkDICOMImageReader & replaced all vtkDICOMImageReader occurances with my Test class name i.e. CTestDicomImage. I had to remove the references to the vtkstd in the vtkDICOMImageReaderVector class as its a recent implementation while I am still using VTK 4.0( I suppose I will replace them with some other MFC list or collections). Everything seems fine except for these 2 linker errors. Whats going wrong here???

Could someone give some helpful pointers. What is the revision macro used for??? Why is there no implementation of *New() in most .cxx files. Am I missing something???

Cheers,
Michael