[vtkusers] vtkSTLReader and QString

[Shawn Waldon]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 7:13 AM, David Cole via vtkusers <vtkusers at vtk.org>
wrote:

> Have you tried
>
> "reader->SetFileName(fileName.toStdString().c_str());"
>
> ?
>
> If your filename may have international characters in it, you will want
filename.toLocal8Bit().data() instead.  But filename.toStdString().c_str()
will work fine with only ASCII in the filename.

HTH,
Shawn

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:33 AM, Abdelkhalek Bakkari
> <bakkari.abdelkhalek at hotmail.fr> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >
> > I tried to read an STL file using  vtkSTLReader  from a directory as
> > follows:
> >
> >
> >
> > -------------------------
> >
> > QString fileName = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName( this, tr("Open File"),
> > "C:\\", tr("Mesh (*.stl *.vtk)"));
> > if (fileName.isNull()) //user cancelled
> > return EXIT_FAILURE;
> >
> > m_imagePath = fileName;
> > //Create an STL reader for reading the file
> > vtkSmartPointer<vtkSTLReader> reader = vtkSmartPointer<vtkSTLReader>:
> :New();
> > //reader->SetFileName(pathName.c_str());
> > reader->SetFileName(fileName.toStdString());
> > reader->Update();
> > -------------------------
> >
> >
> > But, I've got the following error  :
> >
> > 'vtkAbstractPolyDataReader::SetFileName' : cannot convert parameter 1
> from
> > 'std::string' to 'const char *'
> >
> >
> > Could you please propose a solution for this issue?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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