Barney,<br><br>Your experience with VTK will be much more pleasant if you use cmake.<br><br>Without cmake, you can use VTK, but, unless you are an expert with Visual Studio, you will become frustrated and delay your VTK experience.<br>
<br>Please try cmake and ask questions to get started if necessary.<br><br>1) Create a directory for your source code, e.g. call it MyVTK. Add your first example here, perhaps the one I suggested. Also, place the suggested example source code here. Call it ReadTextFile.cxx.<br>
2) Create a directory for your binaries, e.g. call it MyVTK-build<br>3) Run cmake (probably the cmake gui). Tell it which generator you want (the same when you built vtk). Click configure (or something similar). It might ask you where your vtk binary directory is. Select that. Configure and then Generate.<br>
4) Go to the MyVTK-build directory and start VS with the solution file.<br>5) Build all and you should be all set<br><br>Bill<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Barney Sperlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsperlinus@yahoo.com">bsperlinus@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Bill,<br> No, I made a C++ project in VS 2005 Express. What am I missing? I'm not comfortable with CMake though I used it to compile the VTK project in the first place, just following the instructions on a web page. Don't VTK projects work in VS?<div class="im">
<br> Barney<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 10/1/10, Bill Lorensen <i><<a href="mailto:bill.lorensen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.lorensen@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">
<div class="im"><br>From: Bill Lorensen <<a href="mailto:bill.lorensen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.lorensen@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Graphing points<br>To: "Barney Sperlin" <<a href="mailto:bsperlinus@yahoo.com" target="_blank">bsperlinus@yahoo.com</a>><br>
</div>Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 5:14 PM<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div>There is a CMakeLists.txt file on the example page. I assume you configure with cmake?<br><br>Bill<br><br><div>On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Barney Sperlin <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=bsperlinus@yahoo.com" target="_blank">bsperlinus@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Thanks John and Bill,<br> But when I make a VC++ console project out of the code Bill linked to I still get linking errors, including the one listed below. Any thoughts?<br> Barney<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 10/1/10, Bill Lorensen <i><<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=bill.lorensen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.lorensen@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Bill Lorensen <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=bill.lorensen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.lorensen@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Graphing points<br>
To: "Barney Sperlin" <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=bsperlinus@yahoo.com" target="_blank">bsperlinus@yahoo.com</a>><br>Cc: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=vtkusers@vtk.org" target="_blank">vtkusers@vtk.org</a><br>
Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 4:36 PM<div>
<div></div><div><br><br><div>This example may help you get started...<br><a rel="nofollow" href="http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/IO/ReadPlainText" target="_blank">http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/IO/ReadPlainText</a><br>
<br><br><div>On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Barney Sperlin <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=bsperlinus@yahoo.com" target="_blank">bsperlinus@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br> I am trying to find an example of plotting a single point. The goal would be to read the coordinates of a set of points from a file and plot each point, possibly connecting some with line segments. Showing a coordinate system would be good, too.<br>
I have looked at PointClouds and StructuredPointsToUnstructuredGrid.cxx but the point-by-point mechanism seems to be hidden. How do I do that?<br><br> Also, in running the code from this last mentioned cxx file by pasting it into vtk_minimal (which runs) and commenting out the code for vtk_minimal, it compiles but doesn't link. On of the 11 errors is:<br>
1>vtk_minimal.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: __thiscall vtkSmartPointerBase::~vtkSmartPointerBase(void)"
(__imp_??1vtkSmartPointerBase@@QAE@XZ) referenced in function "public: __thiscall vtkSmartPointer<class vtkStructuredPoints>::~vtkSmartPointer<class vtkStructuredPoints>(void)" (??1?$vtkSmartPointer@VvtkStructuredPoints@@@@QAE@XZ)<br>
What lib file is missing?<br><br> Thanks,<br> Barney<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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