[IGSTK-Developers] Failing test on the dashboard

[Andinet Enquobahrie]

Folks,

I investigated why the 
"igstkCTImageSpatialObjectReadingAndRepresentationTest 
<http://public.kitware.com/IGSTK/Dashboard/20060203-0430-Nightly/TestDetail/__Testing_igstkCTImageSpatialObjectReadingAndRepresentationTest.html>" 
is failing in most machines on the dashboard. The reason is that the 
rendered output on the vtk window is not getting captured correctly. 
This problem is due to screensavers turned on those machines.

Talking to VTK/Paraview experts here, there are two options to resolve 
this issue.  The first option is to turn off the screen saver on the 
machine. The second options is to introduce an off screen rendering 
mechanism using Mesa into IGSTK.  The first option is easy and not 
difficult considering the fact that we have only six systems for nightly 
build right now (not counting the Caddlab systems). The second option is 
a little more complicated and not even favored by Paraview folks who do 
a lot of rendered output testing on several machines.

So, I humbly ask those of you who are adminstering the machines on the 
dashboard to turn off the screensaver on your machine and I expect the 
test to pass.

Thank you

-Andinet