[Insight-users] Creating itkHistogramImageToImageMetric object fails

[Bill Lorensen]

HistogramImageToImageMetric has no New() method. It is an abstract
class. It can only be used as a base class. You need to create one of
its derived classes.
http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1HistogramImageToImageMetric.html

Bill

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Maarten Beek <beekmaarten at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Why does the following code not compile?
>
> const unsigned int Dimension = 3;
> typedef double ImagePixelType;
> typedef itk::Image<ImagePixelType, Dimension> ImageType;
> typedef itk::HistogramImageToImageMetric<ImageType,ImageType> HistType;
> HistType::Pointer Metric = HistType::New();
>
> error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'itk::Object::Pointer' to
> 'itk::SmartPointer<TObjectType>'
>
>
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