[Paraview] Error when opening openFOAM case

[Takuya OSHIMA]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the mention about the reader. In fact, it was once checked
into the CVS late last year, but reverted back to the original version
due to too many dashboard errors especially on older and minor
platforms (VS6/SunOS/HP-UX/AIX).

Perhaps I can make a one-time effort of getting rid of all the
reported errors provided that the VTK developers are collaborative
(except an ICE generated by only one of the VS6 dashboard machines for
which I totally have no idea about a solution unless I have direct
access to that particular machine). But I don't think I am so diligent
and patient as to keep asking the VTK developers for repetitive
dashboard trials and errors each time I make improvements or bugfixes
in order to maintain the reader ongoing.

However as a bright side, I am aware of the recent "Can we drop Visual
Studio 6 support?" discussion held on the vtk-developers list. During
the discussion there were not only VS6 but also some other outdated
platforms named as retiring candidates. If it materializes, the
contribution could be easier since most of the remaining (similar)
platforms listed on the dashboard are accessible around me and thus I
should be able to prepare on my part.

Regards,
Takuya

Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN

From: "Olesen, Mark" <Mark.Olesen at emcontechnologies.com>
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Error when opening openFOAM case
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:20:21 +0200

> > I've been having trouble for weeks getting ParaView to work. I've
> > finally gotten a build that loads and seems to work well until I try
> > to load an openFOAM casefile. In ParaView, I open the file
> > (casename.foam) and then it asks for a reader because the program
> > doesn't know how to read the file and then it crashes with this
> > message in the terminal.
> > 
> > /Volumes/openFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView3.5 ->
> > bin/paraview.app/Contents/MacOS/paraview
> > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'
> >   what():  basic_string::_S_create
> > Abort trap
> 
> 
> This error is quite familiar (even on Linux). You have a few possible
> courses of action:
> 
> - use foamToEnsight* to convert to EnSight formats
> 
> - use the library plugin supplied with OpenFOAM (loads files with
> ".OpenFOAM" extension)
> 
> - use Takuya OSHIMA's updated version of the OpenFOAM reader. Actually,
> can someone explain why this isn't included in VTK by default? It seems
> to work fairly well and Takuya is quite diligent about providing fixes
> and improvements.
> 
> Here's some further information:
> 
> http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Contrib_Parallelized_Native_OpenFOAM_R
> eader_for_ParaView
> 
> 
> /mark
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