[Paraview] ParaView 3.6.1 - installation on Windows XP - error?

Tue Jul 21 03:33:00 EDT 2009

Hi,

Thanks ParaView team for your great work.
I however meet a problem after installing ParaView 3.6.1 on a Windows XP
service pack 2 computer where I have no administrator rights, while it was
not the case with ParaView 3.4.0. The error message tells me that:

"This application has not been able to start because the application
configuration is not correct. Reinstalling the application may solve the
problem."

Of course it doesn't solve much... Neither restarting the computer...
 Is there a Windows compatibility problem?
 On the ParaView wiki, I see that ParaView 3.6.1-win32-x86.exe has indeed
been compiled on the platform:

paraview-3.6.1-win32-x86.exe

   - Built on Windows Vista x64 SP2
   - Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition 9.0.30729.1 SP
   - python 2.5.4
   - Qt 4.3.5 open source version

May it be because the computer I use is not updated to Windows Vista?
And why Vista x64? Is it an error on the wiki?

I thank you in advance for your help.

Regards,

Pierre

2009/7/20 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>

> Folks,
>
> Kitware, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Lab are
> proud to announce the release of ParaView 3.6. The binaries and
> sources are available for download from the ParaView website
> (http://www.paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html). This
> release includes several new features along with plenty of bug fixes
> addressing a multitude of usability and stability issues including
> those affecting parallel volume rendering. For a more exhaustive list,
> please refer to http://paraview.org/Bug/roadmap_page.php
>
> Based on user feedback, ParaView's Python API has undergone a major
> overhaul. The new simplified scripting interface makes it easier to
> write procedural scripts mimicking the steps users would follow when
> using the GUI to perform tasks such as creating sources, applying
> filters, etc. Details on the new scripting API can be found on the
> Paraview Wiki.
>
> We have been experimenting with adding support for
> additional file formats such as CGNS, Silo, Tecplot using VisIt
> plugins. Since this is an experimental feature, only the Linux
> binaries distributed from our website support these new file formats.
>
> ParaView now natively supports tabular data-structures thus improving
> support for CSV files including importing CSV files as point-sets or
> structured grids. We have completely redesigned the charting/plotting
> components with several performance fixes as well as usability
> improvements. It is possible to plot arrays from arbitrary datasets
> directly using Plot Data filter. Upon hovering over the plots tooltips
> are shown which detail the plotted values.
>
> In an effort to better support animations involving the camera, we
> have added support for specifying camera movements along splines or
> for orbiting around objects in space. This version has many GUI
> usability improvements including, but definitely not limited to:
> • Color palettes which make it easier to switch between color schemes
> that are suitable for printing and for screen.
> • Improved support for temporal readers and filters.
> • Axes annotations and scalar bar for 2D render view.
> • Zooming to selected region in 3D view.
> • Quick launch for creating sources and filters using Ctrl+Space or
> Alt+Space.
>
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> OverView, an application developed using the ParaView application
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> visualization application designed to support the ingestion,
> processing and display of informatics data. The ParaView client-server
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>
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>
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