itkWriter.h

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/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Insight Segmentation & Registration Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: itkWriter.h,v $
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date: 2002/08/19 13:20:42 $
  Version:   $Revision: 1.4 $

  Copyright (c) 2002 Insight Consortium. All rights reserved.
  See ITKCopyright.txt or http://www.itk.org/HTML/Copyright.htm for details.

  Portions of this code are covered under the VTK copyright.
  See VTKCopyright.txt or http://www.kitware.com/VTKCopyright.htm for details.

     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 
     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.

=========================================================================*/
#ifndef __itkWriter_h
#define __itkWriter_h

#include "itkProcessObject.h"

namespace itk
{

class ITK_EXPORT Writer : public ProcessObject
{
public:
  typedef Writer              Self;
  typedef ProcessObject  Superclass;
  typedef SmartPointer<Self>  Pointer;
  typedef SmartPointer<const Self>  ConstPointer;

  itkTypeMacro(Writer,ProcessObject);

  itkSetStringMacro(FileName);
  
  itkGetStringMacro(FileName);
  
  typedef  enum {ASCII,Binary} FileType;
  
  itkSetMacro(FileType,FileType);
  
  itkGetMacro(FileType,FileType);
                 
  void SetFileTypeToASCII() 
    {this->SetFileType(Writer::ASCII);}

  void SetFileTypeToBinary() 
    {this->SetFileType(Writer::Binary);}

  virtual void Write();

  virtual void Update()
    {this->Write();}
  
protected:
  Writer();
  ~Writer();
  void PrintSelf(std::ostream& os, Indent indent) const;

  virtual void WriteData() = 0;

  void GenerateData() 
    {this->WriteData();}
  
private:
  std::string        m_FileName;
  FileType           m_FileType;
  
  Writer(const Self&); //purposely not implemented
  void operator=(const Self&); //purposely not implemented
};

  
} // end namespace itk
  
#endif
  

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