[vtkusers] vtkKitware...cxx classes in latest CVS

[Amy Squillacote]

At 10:24 AM 5/3/2005, Jon Blower wrote:
>Hi Amy,
>
>Does this mean that those classes are no longer patented?

Yes.  See the following e-mail from the VTK developers mailing list: 
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2005-February/003131.html.

- Amy

>Jon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Amy Squillacote [mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com]
>Sent: 03 May 2005 15:18
>To: Jon Blower; vtkusers at vtk.org
>Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtkKitware...cxx classes in latest CVS
>
>
>Hi Jon,
>
>vtkKitwareContourFilter and vtkKitwareCutter were intentionally removed
>from the build, and their functionality was incorporated into
>vtkContourFilter and vtkCutter, respectively.  This happened when
>vtkSynchronizedTemplates2D and vtkSynchronizedTemplates3D were moved from
>Patented to Graphics on March 31.
>
>- Amy
>
>At 10:10 AM 5/3/2005, Jon Blower wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm trying to compile VTK from the source in CVS (downloaded today, 3rd May
> >2005) under Windows using Visual Studio .NET 2003 and CMake 2.0.6.  My
>first
> >attempt at building seemed to work fine but I noticed that the Patented
> >classes vtkKitwareContourFilter, vtkKitwareCutter and
> >vtkKitwareObjectFactory were missing from the build, even though the source
> >files are present.
> >
> >More probing revealed that the classes are missing from the
> >Patented\CMakeLists.txt.  I (perhaps naively) added the class names to this
> >file, used CMake to regenerate the build files, then rebuilt the whole
>thing
> >in VS.NET.  However, this time it didn't work - it appears that the
> >vtkKitware... class sources in CVS are broken at the moment.  (For example,
> >line 187 of vtkKitwareContourFilter throws up an error saying that
> >"InputScalarsSelection" is not a member of vtkKitwareContourFilter.)
> >
> >Will these classes be fixed soon and, if not, can I get the classes by
> >checking out a CVS tree from an earlier date?  Unfortunately I can't do
> >without vtkKitwareContourFilter at the moment as I need it to run a
> >third-party app.
> >
> >Thanks very much in advance for any help,
> >Jon
> >
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