Avoid confusion due to missing values

[gdcm.git] / Doc / Website / News.html

diff --git a/Doc/Website/News.html b/Doc/Website/News.html
index 9b45d513f0a1ed4af27e49e086341bcc436f1d7f..9b8e5fba7c19939da00f1d6dbcc71c11a31b71de 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/Website/News.html
+++ b/Doc/Website/News.html
@@ -239,9 +239,46 @@ Any contribution is welcome.
 
    void ValEntry::CopyValEntry(uint16_t gr, uint16_t el);
 -->void DataEntry::CopyDataEntry(uint16_t gr, uint16_t el, VRKey const &vr);
-
-New features :
-
+</pre>
+
+<pre>
+Example :
+
+old way :
+        DocEntry *p3 = item2->GetDocEntry(0x0018,0x0050);
+        if( !p3 ) return false;
+        ContentEntry *entry2 = dynamic_cast<ContentEntry *>(p3);
+        std::string thickness = entry2->GetValue();
+
+new way :
+        DocEntry *p3 = item2->GetDocEntry(0x0018,0x0050);
+        if( !p3 ) return false;
+        DataEntry *entry2 = dynamic_cast<DataEntry *>(p3);
+        std::string thickness = entry2->GetString();
+
+</pre>
+
+<LI> Avoid tons of CPU time consuming accesses to DICOM Dictionnary
+<pre>
+   DataEntry *FileHelper::CopyDataEntry(uint16_t group, uint16_t elem);
+-->DataEntry *FileHelper::CopyDataEntry(uint16_t group, uint16_t elem, 
+                                        const VRKey &vr = GDCM_VRUNKNOWN);
+
+   void FileHelper::CheckMandatoryEntry(uint16_t group, uint16_t elem, std::string value);
+-->void FileHelper::CheckMandatoryEntry(uint16_t group, uint16_t elem, std::string value,
+                                        const VRKey &vr = GDCM_VRUNKNOWN);
+      
+   void FileHelper::SetMandatoryEntry(uint16_t group, uint16_t elem, std::string value);       
+-->void FileHelper::SetMandatoryEntry(uint16_t group, uint16_t elem, std::string value,
+                                      const VRKey &vr = GDCM_VRUNKNOWN);
+
+   void FileHelper::CopyMandatoryEntry(uint16_t group, uint16_t elem, std::string value);      
+-->void FileHelper::CopyMandatoryEntry(uint16_t group, uint16_t elem, std::string value,
+                                       const VRKey &vr = GDCM_VRUNKNOWN);
+</pre>
+CopyMandatoryEntry(0x0002,0x0003,sop)
+<LI> New features :
+<pre>
 For multivaluated numeric DataEntries
 -->void DataEntry::SetValue(const uint32_t &id,const double &val);
 -->double DataEntry::GetValue(const uint32_t &id) const;