[Paraview] windows build can not read appended image (VTI) data

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Wed Jun 11 09:44:00 EDT 2008


Brad King wrote:
> Server Levent Yilmaz wrote:
>> To discover (for it was undocumented) that a 4 byte number of elements
>> should precede each record and should be a BIG ENDIAN integer regardless
>> of the endianness of rest of the binary data was quite a thrill (to say
>> the least!).
> 
> Where did you see this?  It's most certainly wrong.  The byte order of
> the count should match that specified by the "byte_order" attribute of
> the VTKFile element.  I see that the files you posted are using big
> endian order for that number even though the file says they are
> LittleEndian.  It's just luck that the file reads anywhere.

Oh, and FYI the count should not be the number of elements, it should be
the number of *bytes* in the array (before base-64 encoding if that is
done).

-Brad


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