[vtkusers] Re: question of deprecated methods.

[Goodwin Lawlor]

"Dongbai Guo" <guodongbai at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:423DB845.10809 at gmail.com...
> I have an older copy of VTK (2.4?) that a program compiled on.
> trying to migrate to 4.2
> Some methods perhaps have been deprecated.
> For example:
> use to have:
> vtkImageReader::SetDataVOI(...).
> This method has gone. Perhaps superseded by:
> vtkImageReader2::SetDataExtent(...).
>
> I couldn't remember what the definition/functionality for SetDataVOI was
> and how it differs from SetDataExtent. Is there a place I can download
> older documentation/check how methods get deprecated and replaced
> by which?
>
> thanks
> Dongbai

Hi Dongbai,

It seems to me that vtkImageReader::SetDataVOI hasn't been depreciated.
There are links to the online docs from 3.2 onwards on the vtk homepage. If
you use a depreciated method a generic warning is ususal triggered to let
you know

hth

Goodwin