I was just trying to reduce the number of times this question comes up on the users list.
I'll abandon the patch. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 5:55 AM, Miller, James V (GE Global Research) <[email protected]> wrote: > I think Brad has the right theme here. > > The issue is not a "user error". It is not a runtime error caused by user not > doing something correctly. For instance, it is not like the user forgot to > give a filename an extension and therefore we couldn't figure out what format > to use to write a file. > > Rather, the issue is a "build error". The developer created an executable > that has no means to use the ITK IO factories. > > So it would be good to catch this at compile time rather than runtime. > > Jim > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Insight-developers [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Bradley Lowekamp > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 8:39 AM > To: Bill Lorensen > Cc: Insight Developers > Subject: Re: [ITK-dev] Missing IO factories when building without cmake > > Bill, > > I think including code in an exception message is a mistake. This information > is clearly geared to some one developing an ITK program. > > I think it would be better to have a wiki page or a FAQ entry with what needs > to be done to fix when there are no ImageIO factories registered. Then is > exception message can just refer to that. > > Also there is the case when a developer using CMake did not correctly include > the ITK_USE_FILE, we were getting a of those issues with ITK v4.0 first came > out. > > Additionally, the user would have to register all the ImageIO, and > TransformIO files. I have previously recommend copying the > itkImageIOFactoryRegisterManager.h and the > itkTransformIOFactoryRegisterManager.h files form the ITK build directory > into the project to perform the factory registration. > > So my question, I thought some of the information was already in the WIKI > some place? Anyone know where? Also the FAQ[1] looks unmaintained. Is this > not a useful resource the community should help keep up to date? Is there a > better location for this type of information? > > Brad > > [1] http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/FAQ > > On Mar 31, 2014, at 7:32 PM, Bill Lorensen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> We have recently seen a couple of users who build their ITK apps >> without cmake. When they try to read or write images they get a >> message like this: >> Description: Could not create IO object for file foo.png Tried to >> create one of the following: >> You probably failed to set a file suffix, or >> set the suffix to an unsupported type. >> >> I submitted a gerrit patch: >> http://review.source.kitware.com/#/c/14909/ >> >> to provide a better description of the exception: >> >> Description: Could not create IO object for writing file foo.img >> Tried to create one of the following: >> There are no registered IO factories. You probably built your project >> without using cmake You can register the IO factories you need with: >> #include "itkXXXImageIOFactory.h" >> itk::XXXImageIOFactory::RegisterOneFactory(); >> where XXX is e.g. Nifti, PNG, Meta... >> #include "itkNiftImageIOFactory.h" >> itk::NiftiImageIOFactory::RegisterOneFactory(); >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Kitware offers ITK Training Courses, for more information visit: >> http://kitware.com/products/protraining.php >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ITK FAQ at: >> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_FAQ >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://www.itk.org/mailman/listinfo/insight-developers > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Kitware offers ITK Training Courses, for more information visit: > http://kitware.com/products/protraining.php > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ITK FAQ at: > http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_FAQ > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.itk.org/mailman/listinfo/insight-developers -- Unpaid intern in BillsBasement at noware dot com _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Kitware offers ITK Training Courses, for more information visit: http://kitware.com/products/protraining.php Please keep messages on-topic and check the ITK FAQ at: http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.itk.org/mailman/listinfo/insight-developers
