[vtkusers] error message reading (Mac-created?) DICOM files in a Windows app

[Steven Chall]

Mathieu,
Thanks for your reply.  I'm happy you're still on the list:  I've already benefited from several of your earlier archived postings as I begin to use VTK's DICOM-reading and -displaying capabilities.

Yes, vtkDICOMImageReader is clearly a powerful class.  The mystery for me in this case is that it's trying to load files in a directory that doesn't even exist on my machine, and I don't think on any Windows machine (I don't believe Windows supports files or directories whose names begin with '.').  I'm trying to figure out why it's appending ".DS_Store" to the path I give it, then failing to parse the resulting string, then moving on to successfully loading the files in that directory that do exist.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

Steve


-Steve Chall
 Senior Research Software Developer
 Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
 Phone: 919-681-9639
 Email: stevec at renci.org



-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:56 AM
To: Steven Chall
Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] error message reading (Mac-created?) DICOM files in a Windows app

Steve,

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Steven Chall <stevec at renci.org> wrote:
> queryDICOMReader->SetDirectoryName("C:\\Users\Steve\\Documents\\IMRT\\
> queryDICOMReader->CT\\Patient013\\Primary");
...
> trying to find where that substring is appended to the directory path, 
> but thus far haven't been able to pinpoint the spot where it occurs.  
> My

the class will load any file located in your input directory, even UNIX hidden files (files that start with a dot).

2cts
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Mathieu