[Paraview] Graceful error handling?

[Berk Geveci]

I am guessing that this is a problem with the reader. It probably
creates an invalid output when this error occurs. The reader should
clean its output (i.e. make it empty) when it encounters an error.
That way, you would see the error on the error console (which does pop
up) and ParaView would not crash.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:40 AM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to load what is apparently a bad ply file in paraview. Paraview
> crashed and I was left in my terminal with the error:
>
> ERROR: In /home/doriad/src/ParaView3/VTK/IO/vtkPLYReader.cxx, line 132
> vtkPLYReader (0xa412288): Cannot read geometry
>
> Is there a way that paraview could stay alive and throw errors like this
> itself in a message box or something? I've had similar problems when trying
> to decimate an invalid mesh - it would be nice to see "error decimating
> mesh" instead of paraview just closing/crashing.
>
> Maybe there is already something like this in place and it is just not being
> used by all the vtk classes?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
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