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<UL>
- <LI> Final check of the jpeg sub-library: all kinds of jpeg
- compressed Dicom files (but jpeg2000) can be read
+ <LI> Final check of the jpeg sub-library: all 'classical' jpeg
+ compressed Dicom files can be read<br>
+ All the previously gdcm-breaker images are now readable<br>
+ gdcm doesn't read yet JPEG-LS and JPEG2000 encoded files.
<LI> Use of <TT> namespace</TT> : all the methods formerly called
<TT>className::gdcmXxx()</TT> are now called <TT>className::Xxx()</TT>
<LI> Removal of accessors <TT>GetXxxByname</TT>, <TT>SetXxxByname</TT>
and <TT>GetXxxByNumber</TT>, <TT>SetXxxByNumber</TT>
- replaced by <TT>GetXxx</TT>, <TT>SetXxx</TT>
+ replaced by <TT>GetXxx</TT>, <TT>SetXxx</TT>
+ <LI> a gdcm::Document is now specialized in gdcm::DicomDir and gdcm::File
<LI> A huge number of memory leaks removed
- <LI> All the previously gdcm-breaker images are now readable
<LI> Improvement of write process
</UL>
+<br>
+<pre>
+For people who get this new release :
+
+We consider now that :
+- any dicom related file is a gdcm::Document.
+- a gdcm::Document can be :
+ - a gdcm::File, if it contains pixel data,
+ - a gdcm::DicomDir, if it contains only informations
+ on the files in a given directory
+
+- in a gdcm::Document, there are gdcm::DocEntry, that can be :
+ - gdcm::ContentEntry (any entry that has an actual value,
+ *not* an embedded set of other gdcm::DocEntry)
+ a gdcm::ContentEntry can be :
+ - gdcm::ValEntry (whose value is std::string representable
+ e.g. character values, or integers),
+ - gdcm::BinEntry (whose value is not std::string representable
+ e.g. color palettes, overlays, icons , ...)
+ - gdcm::Sequence (no proper 'value', but a set of gdcm::SQItems,
+ composed of a set of gdc::DocEntry, recursively)
+
+- in a gdcm::DicomDir, we only deal, hierarchically, with :
+ - gdcmPatient
+ - gdcmStudy
+ - gdcmSerie
+ - gdcmImage
+</pre>
+You can see <a href="uml-gdcm.pdf">gdcm UML Class Diagram</a>
+
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<UL>
This version will be used by Insight Tool Kit
- (<a href="http://www.itk.org">ITK</a> 2.0) at the beginning of 2005.<br>
+ (<a href="http://www.itk.org">ITK</a> 1.10) at the beginning of 2005.<br>
It's not yet packaged ...<br><br>
<LI> The new <TT>gdcmDocument</TT> class is a parent class of
<TT>gdcmHeader</TT> class and <TT>gdcmDicomDir</TT> class.