Re 2: [vtkusers] Re: [vtk-developers] VTK 5.2 Release Planning

[Anka Kochanowska]

Hi!
I am sorry to bother you again. The authors of  vtkImagePlaneWidget
are:

Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen

Maybe you are in a better position to  describe the change in the Wiki?
Anka

Bill Lorensen wrote:

> Any API changes should be documented on the Wiki.
>
> Bill
>
> On Jan 28, 2008 3:53 PM, Anka Kochanowska <anka at bic.mni.mcgill.ca 
> <mailto:anka at bic.mni.mcgill.ca>> wrote:
>
>     Hi!
>     One that I found was in vtkImagePlaneWidget, the actions were renamed:
>
>     from:
>      enum
>      {
>        CURSOR_ACTION       = 0,
>        SLICE_MOTION_ACTION = 1,
>        WINDOW_LEVEL_ACTION = 2
>      };
>     to:
>      enum
>      {
>        VTK_CURSOR_ACTION       = 0,
>        VTK_SLICE_MOTION_ACTION = 1,
>        VTK_WINDOW_LEVEL_ACTION = 2
>      };
>
>     (As I build with both, vtk5.0 and 5.1 I have to use #if
>     ((VTK_MAJOR_VERSION == 5 && VTK_MINOR_VERSION > 0)))
>
>     Also  there is no  vtkActor::RenderTranslucentGeometry(...), you
>     have to
>     replace it  with correct version,  I use
>     vtkActor::RenderTranslucentPolygonalGeometry(...)
>
>     Anka
>
>     Bill Lorensen wrote:
>
>     > David,
>     >
>     > Are there any changes that affect the backward compatibility of the
>     > API(either public or protected) since 5.0?
>     >
>     > Bill
>     >
>     > 2008/1/28 David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com
>     <mailto:david.cole at kitware.com>
>     > <mailto:david.cole at kitware.com <mailto:david.cole at kitware.com>>>:
>     >
>     >     Dear VTK users and developers,
>     >
>     >     We are planning to create the VTK-5-2 branch in about a month
>     >     (around the end of February), followed by a month or so of bug
>     >     fixing activity, followed by the first release candidate for the
>     >     VTK 5.2 release in early April, 2008.
>     >
>     >     As part of that plan, we would like to ask you, the VTK
>     community,
>     >     to contribute to a successful release by doing the following:
>     >     - Review the non-resolved bugs in the bug database and make
>     notes
>     >     on those you really want to see fixed.
>     >     - Help us make the "What's New in VTK 5.2" section of the Wiki
>     >     page complete (did we forget something that you know is new in
>     >     5.2?) -- contribute to the Wiki at
>     >     http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_5.2_Release_Planning
>     >     - Help us get (and keep!) the dashboards to a state of
>     blissful green.
>     >     - Promptly add any newly found bugs or last-minute feature
>     >     requests to the bug database.
>     >     - Keep reading and responding to the mailing lists.
>     >
>     >     We will be triaging the bug database to prioritize which bugs we
>     >     will fix. If you would like to see a particular bug addressed
>     >     before we release 5.2, please visit the bug database and "vote"
>     >     for that bug sometime in the next week or two. To "vote", visit
>     >     http://public.kitware.com/Bug, sign in (or sign up for an
>     account
>     >     and then sign in), and add a note to any bug that you would like
>     >     to see fixed. That will show us what the interest level is in
>     >     fixing that particular bug. Obviously, bugs with little or no
>     >     interest expressed are less likely to be addressed than bugs
>     with
>     >     much interest expressed.
>     >
>     >     New features in VTK since the 5.0 release include:
>     >     - Infovis kit
>     >     - Views kit
>     >     - New Widgets architecture and more than a dozen new widgets
>     >     - New Utilities: freerange, verdict, libxml2, metaio, sqlite
>     >     - Updated Utilities: freetype, zlib
>     >     - More than 300 new C++ classes.
>     >     - More than 100 new C++ tests running on most dashboards
>     >     - Many bug fixes, including much improved Java wrapping support
>     >     and Mac OSX support
>     >
>     >     For all of us VTK-ers at Kitware and around the world,
>     thanks for
>     >     your continued contributions,
>     >     David Cole
>     >     Kitware, Inc.
>     >
>     >
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