[vtkusers] Problem with reading files

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Hamilton Woods <ghw at accutrol.com> wrote:
>
> VTK version 5.6.1
>

I just tried the DumpXMLFile example and it worked without any problem
at all in debug and release.


X:\32bit\VC.80\Libraries\vtk-5.6.1\bin\debug>DumpXMLFile.exe
Usage: DumpXMLFile.exe XMLFile1 XMLFile2 ...

X:\32bit\VC.80\Libraries\vtk-5.6.1\bin\debug>DumpXMLFile.exe
e:\Images\vtkdata\Data\blow.vtk
------------------------
e:\Images\vtkdata\Data\blow.vtk
 contains a
vtkUnstructuredGrid that has 1057 cells and 687 points.
       Cell type vtkTriangle occurs 928 times.
       Cell type vtkQuad occurs 129 times.
 contains point data with 2 arrays.
       Array 0 is named displacement0
       Array 1 is named thickness0
 contains cell data with 0 arrays.
 contains field data with 0 arrays.

X:\32bit\VC.80\Libraries\vtk-5.6.1\bin\debug>cd ..

X:\32bit\VC.80\Libraries\vtk-5.6.1\bin>cd release

X:\32bit\VC.80\Libraries\vtk-5.6.1\bin\release>DumpXMLFile.exe
e:\Images\vtkdata\Data\blow.vtk
------------------------
e:\Images\vtkdata\Data\blow.vtk
 contains a
vtkUnstructuredGrid that has 1057 cells and 687 points.
       Cell type vtkTriangle occurs 928 times.
       Cell type vtkQuad occurs 129 times.
 contains point data with 2 arrays.
       Array 0 is named displacement0
       Array 1 is named thickness0
 contains cell data with 0 arrays.
 contains field data with 0 arrays.

Here are the steps I did to get VTK up and running:

1. Extract VTK into a new source folder.
I chose x:\CMakeBased\Libraries\VTK-5.6.1

2. Open the cmake-gui program

3. Select the source folder from step 1.
4. Select a build folder
I chose x:\32bit\vc.80\Libraries\VTK-5.6.1

5. Then click configure and set the compiler version to Visual Studio 2005
I chose to build the 32 bit version for this example.

6. Then configure.
I disabled BUILD_TESTING, left BUILD_SHARED_LIBS disabled and then
enabled BUILD_EXAMPLES. These options are all available if both the
groped and advanced boxes are checked.

7. Then click generate.
This step will take a few minutes.

8. Then open a Visual Studio 2005 command prompt. And change directory
to the build folder.
For me this was
cd x:\32bit\vc.80\Libraries\VTK-5.6.1

9. Then build vtk.
The simplest way is to type vcbuild inside the build folder. I did
that and about 1 hour later it had finished building the 400+ projects
and configurations.

After this I changed directory to the bin folder and ran the examples
and they worked. In my example above I choose an image from the
vtkdata images that can be downloaded on the same page as the source
code.

John



-- 
John M. Drescher