[vtkusers] Reading XDR data

[Berk Geveci]

You certainly can use FILE*.
There are quite a few readers which use C style IO.
Check vtkPLOT3DReader and vtkGenericEnSightReader for
example.

-Berk

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 09:10, Andrew Porter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone investigated/implemented an XDR reader for vtk?  I've been
> looking into it but am hitting difficulties since vtk uses ifstreams and
> the XDR library wants a FILE*. One solution would be to replace the array
> data in the vtk file with the filename of an associated XDR file. This
> would only be apparent to a 'vtkReadXDRData' routine (in analogy with
> vtkReadBinaryData).  However, it does of course break the normal vtk
> approach of including the header information and data in a single file.
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions gratefully received.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> 
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