# NewSequence.cs

    /*=========================================================================

      Program: GDCM (Grassroots DICOM). A DICOM library
      Module:  $URL$

      Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Mathieu Malaterre
      All rights reserved.
      See Copyright.txt or http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/Copyright.html for details.

         This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
         the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
         PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notice for more information.

    =========================================================================*/

    /*
     * Usage:
     * $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/Projects/gdcm/debug-gcc/bin
     * $ mono bin/NewSequence.exe gdcmData/012345.002.050.dcm out.dcm
     */
    using System;
    //using gdcm;

    public class NewSequence
    {
      public static byte[] StrToByteArray(string str)
        {
        System.Text.ASCIIEncoding  encoding=new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
        return encoding.GetBytes(str);
        }

      public static int Main(string[] argv)
        {
        string file1 = argv[0];
        string file2 = argv[1];

        gdcm.Reader r = new gdcm.Reader();
        r.SetFileName( file1 );
        if ( ! r.Read() )
          {
          return 1;
          }

        gdcm.File f = r.GetFile();
        gdcm.DataSet ds = f.GetDataSet();
        // tsis = gdcm.Tag(0x0008,0x2112) # SourceImageSequence

        // Create a dataelement
        gdcm.DataElement de = new gdcm.DataElement(new gdcm.Tag(0x0010, 0x2180));
        string occ = "Occupation";
        de.SetByteValue( StrToByteArray(occ), new gdcm.VL((uint)occ.Length));
        de.SetVR(new gdcm.VR(gdcm.VR.VRType.SH));

        // Create an item
        gdcm.Item it = new gdcm.Item();
        it.SetVLToUndefined();      // Needed to not popup error message
        //it.InsertDataElement(de)
        gdcm.DataSet nds = it.GetNestedDataSet();
        nds.Insert(de);

        // Create a Sequence
        gdcm.SmartPtrSQ sq = gdcm.SequenceOfItems.New();
        sq.SetLengthToUndefined();
        sq.AddItem(it);

        // Insert sequence into data set
        gdcm.DataElement des = new gdcm.DataElement(new gdcm.Tag(0x0400,0x0550));
        des.SetVR(new gdcm.VR(gdcm.VR.VRType.SQ));
        des.SetValue(sq.__ref__());
        des.SetVLToUndefined();

        ds.Insert(des);

        gdcm.Writer w = new gdcm.Writer();
        w.SetFile( f );
        w.SetFileName( file2 );
        if ( !w.Write() )
          return 1;

        return 0;
        }
    }