[Paraview] Problem with LIC representation in PV3.10-RC1

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Looks like the problem is that the plugin didn't get loaded correctly.
It's possible  that ParaView picked up the wrong plugin by default. We
have fixes for this logic that should make it into 3.10 release.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Adriano Gagliardi <agagliardi at ara.co.uk> wrote:
>
> No, I opened a fresh version of ParaView, I navigated and selected the mesh
> file and when I clicked apply, it crashed out with the
> vtkSurfaceLICRepresentation error message:
>
> ERROR: In /path/to/ParaView-3.10.0-RC1/Servers/Common/vtkProcessModule.cxx,
> line 1095
> vtkProcessModule (0x1047a150): Cannot create object of type
> "vtkSurfaceLICRepresentation".
> while processing
> Message 0 = New
>  Argument 0 = string_value {vtkSurfaceLICRepresentation}
>  Argument 1 = id_value {326}
>
> The irony is that, although I remember creating a vector before the crash,
> at no point did I switch the representation to SurfaceLIC.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
> Sent: 23 February 2011 14:49
> To: agagliardi at ara.co.uk
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Problem with LIC representation in PV3.10-RC1
>
> Were you loading a state file or something? ParaView will never use
> 'SurfaceRepresentation" as the default representation.
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Adriano Gagliardi <agagliardi at ara.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I just had a problem where I had my data loaded in and was visualising
>> it using Surface representation. During this, ParaView crashed with a
>> Floating Point Exception. However, when I restarted ParaView and I
>> tried to reload the dataset, it would just crash to desktop with an
>> error relating to vtkSurfaceLICRepresentation. It appears that it was
>> trying to display using the Surface LIC representation, but there are
>> no vectors contained within the dataset. I got round it by disabling
>> the SurfaceLIC plugin in the .ini file. It would be worth having an
>> option in the .ini file that allows you to specify a default
> representation, or is there another way around this?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Adriano
>>
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>>
>> Adriano Gagliardi MEng PhD
>> Business Sector Leader
>> Computational Aerodynamics
>> Aircraft Research Association Ltd.
>> Manton Lane
>> Bedford
>>
>> Tel: 01234 32 4644
>> E-mail: agagliardi at ara.co.uk
>> Url: www.ara.co.uk
>>
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