-/**
- * \ingroup Globals
- * \brief Pointer to the hash table containing the Dicom Elements
- * necessary to describe each part of a DICOMDIR
- */
-gdcmDicomDirElement *gdcmGlobal::ddElem = (gdcmDicomDirElement *)0;
+const std::string GDCM_UNKNOWN = "gdcm::Unknown";
+const std::string GDCM_UNFOUND = "gdcm::Unfound";
+const std::string GDCM_BINLOADED = "gdcm::Binary data loaded";
+const std::string GDCM_NOTLOADED = "gdcm::NotLoaded";
+const std::string GDCM_UNREAD = "gdcm::UnRead";
+const std::string GDCM_NOTASCII = "gdcm::NotAscii";
+const std::string GDCM_PIXELDATA = "gdcm::Pixel Data to be loaded";
+//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+DictSet *Global::Dicts = (DictSet *)0;
+VR *Global::ValRes = (VR *)0;
+TS *Global::TranSyn = (TS *)0;
+DictGroupName *Global::GroupName = (DictGroupName *)0;
+DicomDirElement *Global::ddElem = (DicomDirElement *)0;