[vtkusers] ProgrammableGlyphFilter example

[Bill Lorensen]

Looks like I fixed the bug here:
http://review.source.kitware.com/#/c/6610/

Probably after 5.10

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:34 AM, David Cole via vtkusers
<vtkusers at vtk.org> wrote:
> The VTK Wiki Examples dashboard reflects this... showing exactly the result
> you describe:
> http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=291794635&build=3556356
>
> I would suspect it's a bug in VTK 5.10 which has since been fixed. (I don't
> know this for a fact, but it seems to work as expected with VTK 6 and later,
> but not with 5.10...)
>
>
> D
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Gib Bogle <g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>
>> There seems to be something funny about this example:
>> http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Visualization/ProgrammableGlyphFilter
>> I believe it should render a cone, a cube, and a sphere, but when I build
>> and run it with VTK-5.10.1, I see only the cone.  Strangely, the console
>> output is:
>>
>> Calling CalcGlyph for point 0
>> Point coords are: 0 0 0
>> Calling CalcGlyph for point 1
>> Point coords are: 5 0 0
>> Calling CalcGlyph for point 2
>> Point coords are: 10 0 0
>>
>> which makes it look as if it is creating the cube (point 1) and sphere
>> (point 2).
>>
>> The comment in this code in main():
>>
>>   glyphFilter->SetGlyphMethod(CalcGlyph, glyphFilter);
>>   //need a default glyph, but this should not be used
>>   vtkSmartPointer<vtkConeSource> coneSource =
>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkConeSource>::New();
>> #if VTK_MAJOR_VERSION <= 5
>>   glyphFilter->SetSource(coneSource->GetOutput());
>> #else
>>   glyphFilter->SetSourceConnection(coneSource->GetOutputPort());
>> #endif
>>
>> suggests that although coneSource is initially set as the source for
>> glyphFilter, it is expected that this will be overridden by the code in
>> CalcGlyph(), but in fact this is not happening.  What is missing?
>>
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