[vtkusers] Re: VolumePro1000 SDK problem

[Dan White]

Yes please Kent!

you are using windows i presume?

cheers

Dan

On May 15, 2006, at 7:01 PM, vtkusers-request at vtk.org wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a VP1000 board, and I am new to VTK, it took me some time to  
> get it working.  Here's what I've found out:
>
> 1) I couldn't get VTK version 4.4.2 to compile with the .h and .lib  
> files provided on the vtk web site.  It seems to work fine with the  
> Terarecon supplied files, but I believe you need to buy the SDK  
> from Terarecon to get these (I had already purchased the SDK so I  
> had the files).  You should contact Terarecon to see if you can get  
> these files, you don't need the documentation of the VLI SDK to get  
> vtk to work, just the files (.h, ..lib, and .dll for windows  
> platforms).
>
> 2) VTK 5 doesn't have the VP1000 options available in the CMake  
> files.  I spent some time studying the 4.4 Cmake files to see what  
> needed to be done, and I was able to modify the vesion 5 makefiles  
> to show the VP1000 options and get them to compile.  All the VP1000  
> classes are still there in version 5, so I'm not sure why this was  
> done.  I would guess that Volume Pro support is going to fade away  
> in vtk.
>
> If anyone is interested I will send the files I modified for vtk 5  
> to the list.
>
> Kent
>
> Kent Ogden PhD
> Associate Professor, Radiology
> SUNY Upstate Medical University
> 750 E. Adams Street

Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
Bioimaging Coordinator
Nanoscience Centre and Department of Biological and Environmental  
Sciences
Division of Molecular Recognition
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