[vtkusers] vtk+OS X: can't read *.tiff files

[Brad King]

Karl Garsha wrote:
> I'm not sure if anyone out there has any insights, but I can't seem to 
> get vtk w/ python wrappers to read a simple *.tiff file.  vtkImageReader 
> doesn't work, vtkTiffReader doesn't work.  Working from an interpreter, 
> as soon as I call vtkImageReader.Update() or vtkTiffReader.Update() I 
> get a spectacular crash that makes the interpreter just disappear 
> followed by a prompt to send a bug report to Apple.  I'm not getting any 
> messages to the console.
>    I've done this before and not had problems; old scripts that I know 
> used to work just fail now.  It doesn't matter if I provide the reader 
> with all sorts of information about the dataset or not.
>    I'm running python 2.3 (stock framework w/ macPython addons) on 
> 10.3.8.  The VTK build is a CVS download that I built a week ago with no 
> problems whatsoever.    I'm stumped.  Perhaps I should try the official 
> release?  Thanks in advance for any advice.

I cannot duplicate this problem with some simple tiff files.  Please 
send me an example of a file that won't read.

Thanks,
-Brad