2DArray

Description¶

This example creates a 5x5 2D array and sets the (4,4) (zero based indexing, of course) entry to 5.0. Then it outputs this value to demonstrate accessing.

Code¶

2DArray.cxx

#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkDenseArray.h>

int main(int, char *[])
{
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkDenseArray<double> > array = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkDenseArray<double> >::New();

  array->Resize(5,5);

  array->SetValue(4,4, 5.0);

  std::cout << array->GetValue(4,4) << std::endl;

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt¶

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

project(2DArray)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
  vtkCommonCore QUIET)
if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message("Skipping 2DArray: ${VTK_NOT_FOUND_MESSAGE}")
  return ()
endif()
message (STATUS "VTK_VERSION: ${VTK_VERSION}")
if (VTK_VERSION VERSION_LESS "8.90.0")
  # old system
  include(${VTK_USE_FILE})
  add_executable(2DArray MACOSX_BUNDLE 2DArray.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(2DArray PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
else ()
  # include all components
  add_executable(2DArray MACOSX_BUNDLE 2DArray.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(2DArray PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
  # vtk_module_autoinit is needed
  vtk_module_autoinit(
    TARGETS 2DArray
    MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
    )
endif ()

Download and Build 2DArray¶

Click here to download 2DArray and its CMakeLists.txt file. Once the tarball 2DArray.tar has been downloaded and extracted,

cd 2DArray/build

If VTK is installed:

cmake ..

If VTK is not installed but compiled on your system, you will need to specify the path to your VTK build:

cmake -DVTK_DIR:PATH=/home/me/vtk_build ..

Build the project:

make

and run it:

./2DArray

WINDOWS USERS

Be sure to add the VTK bin directory to your path. This will resolve the VTK dll's at run time.