[vtkusers] [FORGED] Re: Qt-based VTK app shows black image content if VTK is linked statically

Tue Aug 9 12:34:39 EDT 2016

Hi all,

regarding this topic: In the meantime, I have found out that indeed, 
when using static VTK libraries, the image-related components (e.g. 
vtkImageResliceMapper) always retrieve invalid bounds / whole data 
extent from the input image data (0,-1,0,-1,0,-1) - and the 
corresponding content is black. When using dynamic VTK libraries, the 
information is correct, and the resliced image is shown as expected.

The only function which (indirectly) sets invalid image dimensions is 
PrepareForNewData(), which is called from vtkImageResliceMapper's 
Update().

Ideally, I would like to continue debugging and find out why, in case of 
static VTK libraries, the information is not correctly overwritten later 
in my case, but would appreciate any help, since the processing / 
updating mechanism during a Render() call are not clear to me.

Any hints or ideas?

Thanks,

     sophonet

> Hi,
> 
> great that this is beine picked up. No, absolutely no changes besides
> switching from dynamic to static. The revision was exactly the same,
> the CMake flags as well.
> 
> Again, some content (vtkPolyData) was shown, but other content (in my
> case results of vtkImageReslice) was not. If you guys have already a
> clue about what might be the cause, please go ahead, otherwise, I will
> try to set up a minimal example in the next days/weeks, and if I find
> something, I will file a merge request.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>      Sophonet
> 
> 
>> Hi Sophonet and Enzo,
>> 
>> is it possible you made other changes besides switching VTK from DLLs
>> to static libraries? Perhaps your application was using a different
>> version of VTK DLLs than you thought etc.
>> 
>> If that is not the case, can you point to an example which exhibits
>> the problem?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dženan
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Gib Bogle <g.bogle at auckland.ac.nz>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Statically linked VTK 5.10 works fine with Qt.
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: vtkusers [vtkusers-bounces at vtk.org] on behalf of Enzo
>>> Matsumiya [enzo.matsumiya at gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2016 6:21 a.m.
>>> To: Constantinescu Mihai via vtkusers
>>> Subject: [FORGED] Re: [vtkusers] Qt-based VTK app shows black image
>>> content if VTK is   linked statically
>>> 
>>> I can confirm that some issues occur when using VTK static as well
>>> (VTK stable 7.0.0).
>>> I could not look further into the issue, but my application crashed
>>> instead of just black window, and I just rolled back to dynamic
>>> build.
>>> 
>>> Appreciate any details on this.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Enzo
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 3, 2016, at 15:05, Sophonet
>>> <vtk12af6bc42 at kant.sophonet.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi list,
>>>> 
>>>> recently, I have been working on a Qt application (using VTK
>>> functionality in the main .exe and a bunch of underlying DLLs).
>>>> 
>>>> If VTK is built dynamically, the application behaves as expected.
>>>> 
>>>> However, if VTK is built statically (and - obviously - the
>>> application and underlying DLLs are then built using the static
>>> libraries of VTK), some content (vtkImageSlice) is missing in the
>>> render window, i.e. does not appear at all. Other parts (e.g.
>>> vtkPolyData) are shown correctly.
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone knows how to fix this? If possible, I would like to do
>>> static linking of VTK.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>>     sophonet
>>>> 
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