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  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkImageSource.h
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  Thanks:    Thanks to C. Charles Law who developed this class.

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// .NAME vtkImageSource - Source of data for pipeline.
// .SECTION Description
// vtkImageSource is the supperclass for all sources and filters.
// The method Update, called by the cache, is the major interface
// to the source.

// .SECTION See Also
// vtkImageCache vtkImageRegion


#ifndef __vtkImageSource_h
#define __vtkImageSource_h

#include "vtkImageData.h"
#include "vtkProcessObject.h"

class vtkImageCache;

class VTK_EXPORT vtkImageSource : public vtkProcessObject
{
public:
  vtkImageSource();
  ~vtkImageSource();
  const char *GetClassName() {return "vtkImageSource";};
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  virtual void SetReleaseDataFlag(int value);
  int  GetReleaseDataFlag();
  vtkBooleanMacro(ReleaseDataFlag, int);
  
  virtual void InterceptCacheUpdate();
  virtual void InternalUpdate(vtkImageData *data);
  virtual void Update();
  virtual void UpdateWholeExtent();
  virtual void UpdateImageInformation() = 0;

  virtual unsigned long GetPipelineMTime();
  vtkImageCache *GetOutput();

  virtual void SetCache(vtkImageCache *cache);
  vtkImageCache *GetCache();

  // Description:
  // subclass can over ride this method to do custom streaming and
  // splitting for multiprocessing.
  virtual int SplitExtent(int splitExt[6], int startExt[6], 
			  int num, int total);

protected:
  vtkImageCache *Output;

  virtual void Execute(vtkImageData *data); 
  virtual void CheckCache();
};


#endif


