[Paraview-developers] reader crashing when default timestep is set to last_timestep

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

A fix is on its way: http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/5274/

Utkarsh

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Favre  Jean <jfavre at cscs.ch> wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I have a reader for an internal file format which is not time-aware (no timestep value is provided). Thus I store one timestep per file. The XML description makes my reader inherit from vtkFileSeriesReader with the following property.
>
>      <DoubleVectorProperty
>         name="TimestepValues"
>         repeatable="1"
>         information_only="1">
>         <TimeStepsInformationHelper/>
>      </DoubleVectorProperty>
>
> if my default timestep is set to "go to first timestep", everything is good and I can animate and read any file in my file series.
> If instead the default is set to "go to last timestep", paraview crashes in UpdateInformation in pqDataTimeStepBehavior.cxx line 81
>
> scene->setAnimationTime(timesteps[newTimeStep]);
>
> because newTimeStep has a huge value. My own code is not time-aware, so I have no source code specific to time.
>
> Further, paraview also crashes  if I have a single file, instead of a file series.
> I don't know if I need to give another XML hint, or if my RequestInformation() code should have anything special.
>
> I'd appreciate any clue. (this is the latest git pull)
> -----------------
> Jean
> CSCS
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