[vtkusers] Re: then how to solve the problem?

[Amy Squillacote]

Hi Dongqing,

I'm copying your message back to the vtkusers list so other people 
can help address your problem.

- Amy

At 04:14 PM 4/28/2006, Dongqing Chen wrote:
>Dear Amy:
>
>   Thanks a lot for your quick replying.
>
>   The situation for me can be described like this:
>
>   All the jobs either by other collegues in my lab or me are based 
> on vtk 4.2. And some of our work are being integrated, but I got 
> some help from other friends who are also on the vtkusers mail 
> list.  They generously let me to share their ideas or even their 
> own codes, and I really benefit a lot from this mail list. and of 
> course, I really appreciate the powerful VTK and Kitware, helping 
> me a lot on my research.
>
>   Some program from another friend was coded using vtk 5.0. When I 
> combined with my own code under vtk 4.2, then some errors are 
> generated naturally and accordingly. One of the soultions is that I 
> should upgrade the vtk package on my computer. I did every thing as 
> before when I generated makefiles for vtk4.2 using CMake 2.0.
>
>   So my qustions are come up accordingly:
>   1).As you said in your email below, how and where can I find the 
> appropriate non-patented directories? Do I need to do this?
>
>   2). If I do not need, I should meet the problem again, which is 
> the patent.lib file could not be found, since I complie my program 
> coded by vtk 4.2 under vtk 5.0 environment directly. Any thing I 
> should change to avoid this? I guess that I should remove 
> "vtkPatent.lib" from the link dirctory of project setting. I am not 
> very sure about my guess? am I right?
>
>  3). Do u know any member funcion in the vtkDataArray class in vtk 
> 4.2 can do the similar thing as WriteVoidPointer(0,0) in the 
> vtkDataArray in Vtk 5.0?
>
>  Sorry for asking some many questions to you.
>
>  Please forgive any ignorance of me, since I am a little bit new user of vtk.
>
>Best Wishes
>
>Dongqing Chen
>Research Assistant
>Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP) Lab
>Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>University of Louisville
>Louisville, KY. 40292
>U.S.A.
>Email: <mailto:dqchen at cvip.louisville.edu>dqchen at cvip.louisville.edu
>Phone: (502)852-2789 (Lab)
>              (502)852-6130 (Office)
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com>Amy Squillacote
>To: <mailto:dqchen at cairo.spd.louisville.edu>Dongqing Chen ; 
><mailto:vtkusers at vtk.org>vtkusers at vtk.org
>Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 9:40 AM
>Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtk_use_patented.
>
>Hi Dongqing,
>
>VTK no longer has a Patented directory.  The patents expired, and 
>the classes from that directory have been moved into the appropriate 
>non-patented directories in VTK.
>
>- Amy
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