[vtkusers] Confusion about GetOutputPort and GetOutput

[Berk Geveci]

I would use foo->SetInputConnection(bar->GetOutputPort()) to create
the pipeline but using
GetOutput() to get the output data object of a filter is totally fine
(and should not be
discouraged). Can you tell me which page this text is in?

-berk

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Eugen Wintersberger
<eugen.wintersberger at jku.at> wrote:
> Hi there
>  its me again. I just had a look in "The Visualization Toolkit ....".
> The book states that the usage of SetInput and GetOutput is highly
> discouraged for VTK versions higher then 5.0. I use VTK 5.0.4 on an
> Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 installation. If I write my program using SetInput -
> GetOutput I can easily access different attribute data from a dataset by
> passing the index of the attribute data as an argument to the GetOutput
> method of a dataset class. If I use, as recommended the GetOutputPort I
> cannot use the index of attribute data. Can anyone explain me why this
> is in this way or do I make a conceptual mistake?
>
> regards
>   Eugen
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