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

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

>>>>> "KG" == Karl Garsha <garsha at itg.uiuc.edu> writes:

    KG> An update: the crashing interpreter is due to some sort of
    KG> conflict between the PyCrust interpreter or wxWindows and
    KG> Python/VTK.  When I run a simple interpreter from the shell
    KG> prompt, I can read *.tif files.  I'm still having render
    KG> window problems though; vtkImageViewer just shows up for a
    KG> split second with nothing in it and then dissappears.  I'm
    KG> using the Carbon build. I have an older Fink VTK build that
    KG> does the same thing in X11.  I'm just calling the Render()
    KG> function of the ImageViewer, am I missing something?  An
    KG> example of the code I'm using is below.  The only wierd thing
    KG> I'm doing is using 8-bit color indexed tiff files; clearly I'm
    KG> doing something wrong but I can't seem to figure out what it
    KG> is that I'm forgetting.

It could be a library mismatch.  I ran into one pretty nasty one with
zlib in October.  See this thread:

 http://lists.wxwidgets.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?11:mss:33378:fhggeejokfcfommhboka

It might not be of any use but you might want to run it under gdb and
see what is going on.

cheers,
prabhu