[vtkusers] vtkPLY exit

[Sean McBride]

On 11/7/07 1:58 PM, James Hargrave said:

>Maybe it's one of my build settings or something but vtkPLY has a number of
>cases where it calls exit(-1).
>
>Is there a reason for this?  A failed return code or an exception would seem
>much more useful.  As it is now when an invalid .ply file is loaded into my
>application it shuts down instead of explaining the issue to the user and
>just aborting the load of the file.

I agree.  Calling exit() like that is evil.  Please file a bug at
<http://public.kitware.com/Bug>.  Also, my colleague Mathieu has
improved the PLY reader and it can now read more PLY files, you might
want to try VTK from CVS to see if this helps you.

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