[vtkusers] Re: PointLocator question

[Goodwin Lawlor]

Gil Lecker at FEM++.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I am trying to locate a point in an UnstructuredGrid using 2 methods 
> (not in the same time) of vtkPointLocator :
>  
> 1) FindClosestPointWithinRadius
> Am I using a wrong type of variable for the returned distance (dist2) ?
> the doc says:"
> vtkPointLocator::FindClosestPointWithinRadius 	(  	float  	  /radius/,
> 		const float  	  /x/[3],
> 		float &  	  /dist2/
> 	) "
> 
> The tcl code I use:
> # define the locator
>  vtkPointLocator locator1
>   locator1 SetTolerance $toler0
>   locator1 SetDataSet usgModel
> ...
>    set dist 0.0
>    set found [locator_tmp FindClosestPointWithinRadius $radius $x $y $z 
> dist]
> The error message is:
> Object named: locator1, could not find requested method: 
> FindClosestPointWithinRadius
> or the method was called with incorrect arguments.
>  
> while executing "locator1 FindClosestPointWithinRadius $radius $x $y $z 
> dist"

Hi Gil,

FindClosestPointWithinRadius isn't wrapped by tcl... maybe it should be- 
  you could file a bug report here: http://www.vtk.org/Bug

hth

Goodwin