Merge branch 'issue63_VTI-writer' into develop

README.md

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ MMSP is nothing more than a collection of C++ header files that declare a number
  * An ISO compliant C++ compiler (e.g. GCC 2.95 or later)
  * zlib libraries for data compression (e.g. zlib 1.2.7)
  * libpng headers for mmsp2png image generation utility (e.g. libpng12-dev)
+ * libvtk headers for mmsp2vti image generation utility (e.g. libvtk6-dev)
  * MPI libraries if compiling parallel programs (e.g. Open MPI)
 
 *Documentation*

include/MMSP.grid.cpp

@@ -1181,10 +1181,14 @@ template<int dim, typename T> void grid<dim,T>::input(const char* filename, int
 	}
 
 	// grid data type error check
-	std::string type;
+	std::string type, scalar_type;
 	getline(input, type, '\n');
+	scalar_type = "grid:scalar" + type.substr(type.find_last_of(":", 8));
+	if (type != name(*this) && scalar_type == name(*this)) {
+		type = scalar_type;
+	}
 	if (type != name(*this)) {
-		std::cerr << "File read error: wrong data type (" << type << ")." << std::endl;
+		std::cerr << "File read error: wrong data type (" << type << "), expected (" << name(*this) << ")." << std::endl;
 		exit(-2);
 	}
 

utility/Makefile

@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@
 # GNU makefile for grid conversion programs using MMSP
 # Questions/comments to [email protected] (Jason Gruber)
 
+# find VTK libraries
+VTK_SRC = -I $(shell dirname $(shell locate --limit 1 vtkImageData.h))
+VTK_LIB = -L $(shell dirname $(shell locate --limit 1 vtkCommonCore.so))
+vtklinks = -lvtkCommonCore -lvtkCommonDataModel -lvtkIOXML
+
 # compilers/flags
 compiler = g++
-flags = -O2 -Wall -pedantic -I ../include/
-
+flags = -O2 -Wall -I ../include $(VTK_SRC) $(VTK_LIB)
 topo = ../algorithms/topology
 
 # conversion programs
@@ -32,9 +36,9 @@ mmsp2pvd : mmsp2pvd.cpp
 mmsp2tsv : mmsp2tsv.cpp
 	$(compiler) $(flags) $< -o $@ -lz
 
-# convert MMSP grid file to VTK Image file type
+# convert MMSP grid file to compressed VTK Image file type
 mmsp2vti : mmsp2vti.cpp
-	$(compiler) $(flags) $< -o $@ -lz
+	$(compiler) $(flags) $< -o $@ $(vtklinks) -lz
 
 # convert MMSP grid file to XYZ point cloud file type
 mmsp2xyz : mmsp2xyz.cpp