[vtkusers] Migration to VTK6

[Cory Quammen]

Arno,

That pattern should be valid in VTK6. Are you getting compile errors?

I believe the Update() and Write() calls to the writer are redundant - you
should need only one.

Thanks,
Cory

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Arno Klein <binarybottle at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to update my code to migrate to VTK6 according to:
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK_6_Migration/Removal_of_Update
>
> According to the examples on that site, I understand that:
>
>     vtkDataObject* dobj = someAlgorithm->GetOutput(1);
>     dobj->Update();
>
> should become:
>
>     someAlgorithm->Update(1);
>
>
> However, I don’t know how to deal with the following pattern:
>
> void PointAreaComputer::WriteIntoFile(char *fileName)
> {
>     vtkPolyDataWriter* writer=vtkPolyDataWriter::New();
>     writer->SetFileName(fileName);
>     m_mesh->GetPointData()->SetScalars(m_pointsArea);
>     writer->SetInputData(m_mesh);
>     writer->Update();
>     writer->Write();
>     writer->Delete();
> }
>
> What should I do to make this compatible with VTK6?
>
> Cheers,
> @rno
>
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Cory Quammen
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