[Insight-users] Re: itk , fltk, vtk

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Zein,


1) The Fltk and Qt Viewer have been removed from
    the basic Insight source tree. You will find
    them now in the cvs module "InsightApplications"

    This was done because ITK does not depend on
    FLTK, QT, VTK, OpenGL or GLUT. Only the applications
    depend on these libraries.


2) For building fltk use the fltk.dsw workspace
    and select the project "Demos".

    This will compile everything


3) When you build ITK now, USE_FLTK and USE_VTK
    do not appear anymore.  Isn't that great ! :-)

    The do not appear, because they are not needed.
    ITK does not require FLTK or VTK, only the
    applications do.

    When you will configure the InsightApplications
    tree, then and only then, CMake will ask you
    again for USE_FLTK and USE_VTK.


4) For using VTK for visualizing meshes you should
    IN YOUR PROJECT include VTK. ITK does not depend
    on VTK, you you simply ... build it.

    Still you have to make sure that you build VTK
    with ANSI_STDLIB enabled.

    In the CMakeLists.txt file of YOUR project, add
    the following lines:


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For using ITK  you need to add


FIND_PACKAGE(ITK)
IF(ITK_FOUND)
   INCLUDE(${ITK_USE_FILE})
ELSE(ITK_FOUND)
   MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR
           "Cannot build InsightApplications without ITK.  Please set 
ITK_DIR.")
ENDIF(ITK_FOUND)

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For using VTK you need to add

FIND_PACKAGE(VTK)
IF (VTK_FOUND)
   INCLUDE (${VTK_USE_FILE})
ELSE(VTK_FOUND)
   MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR
           "Cannot build InsightApplications without ITK.  Please set 
VTK_DIR.")
ENDIF(VTK_FOUND)


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Please let us know if you encouter any problems,


Thanks


  Luis


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salah wrote:
> Hi Luis,
> 
> I have downloaded itk using cvs to a new directory. I have also downloaded fltk 1.1.3 and vtk 4.2. I want to make a totally new itk-fltk-vtk environment on my computer.
> I have notived that the fltk viewers and qt viewers are no more part of the itk directory. 
> 
> 1. My program DOES use fltk viewers. furthermore, its user interface is based on fltk. How should it deal with fltk from now on?
> 2. when building fltk: in the directory /fltk/visualc there are so many workspaces. Which one(s) should I build? the fltk.dsw itself has many projects! which ones should I build?
> 3. I ran cmake 1.6.5  to build itk. The options USE_FLTK and USE_VTK do not exist any more! is this normal?
> 4. I going to use vtk for visualizing mesh data generated with itk (that's the first time). What (and how) should I build, enable, ...? I mean vtk and itk??
> 
> 
> I peg for your patience.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Zein
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> Zein I. Salah 
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