[vtkusers] Getting a float OR double array

[David Doria]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Darshan Pai <darshanpai at gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> if you are using dataNormals then you can use GetComponent() function to
> retrieve the normals . This always returns double so you dont really need to
> know the type . But in case you want to make the class depending on type, I
> think you can switch using the GetDataTypeAsString function.
>
> Darshan
>
>
Ah cool, GetComponent should do the trick. Is there a reason that there is
not a function like

void vtkDataArray::GetTuple(int i, double[3]) ?

It is the same idea of always returning a double, but returning the casted
values as an array. The components=3 specialization seems reasonable since
vtkDoubleArray and vtkFloatArray both alread support it.

David
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