ShallowCopy

VTKExamples/Cxx/Utilities/ShallowCopy

Code¶

ShallowCopy.cxx

#include <vtkPolyData.h>
#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>

int main(int, char *[])
{
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> polydata = vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData>::New();

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> polydataCopy = vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData>::New();

  polydataCopy->ShallowCopy(polydata);

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt¶

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

PROJECT(ShallowCopy)

find_package(VTK REQUIRED)
include(${VTK_USE_FILE})

add_executable(ShallowCopy MACOSX_BUNDLE ShallowCopy.cxx )

target_link_libraries(ShallowCopy ${VTK_LIBRARIES})

Download and Build ShallowCopy¶

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

cd ShallowCopy/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:

./ShallowCopy

WINDOWS USERS

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