/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkImageSource.cxx
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date$
  Version:   $Revision$
  Thanks:    Thanks to C. Charles Law who developed this class.

Copyright (c) 1993-1995 Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen.

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=========================================================================*/
#include "vtkImageSource.h"


//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
vtkImageSource::vtkImageSource()
{
}





//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
void vtkImageSource::PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent)
{
  vtkObject::PrintSelf(os,indent);
}
  

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Description:
// This method returns an object which will generate regions.
// For non cached sources, it returns the source itself.
// The convention for connection elements in an image pipeline is
// "consumer->SetInput(source->GetOutput)".  It is primarily
// designed to allows sources with multple outputs.
vtkImageSource *vtkImageSource::GetOutput()
{
  return this;
}


//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Description:
// This method returns the maximum MTime of this source and all the objects
// that come before this source (that can change this sources output).
// Elegagent MTime propagation is very difficult, and is still unresolved.
// The current impelentation works, but other mechanisms are being considered.
// See the vtkImageFilter class for more information.
unsigned long vtkImageSource::GetPipelineMTime()
{
  return this->GetMTime();
}


//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Description:
// This method updates the whole region and returns it.
vtkImageRegion *vtkImageSource::Update()
{
  vtkImageRegion *region;
  
  region = new vtkImageRegion;
  this->UpdateImageInformation(region);
  region->SetExtent(region->GetImageExtent());
  this->UpdateRegion(region);
  
  return region;
}

  







