[Paraview] Error when opening openFOAM case

[Berk Geveci]

We are still waiting on answers but I think that we will drop VS6
support. We didn't look into other compilers yet. Once the dashboard
is clean, let's try this again. It would be a good test to see which
compilers are hopeless and which ones need some work.

-berk

2009/4/25 Takuya OSHIMA <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp>:
> 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 the discussion there were not only VS6 but also some other outdated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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