[Paraview] ParaView 3.8.1 hangs on select points/cells for plugin-generated multiblock data set

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Takuya,

Following the email threads you posted on the bug report, it seems
that issue is no longer a problem, with 3.9. Am I reading that
correctly?

Utkarsh

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Takuya OSHIMA
<oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Ouch. It's already been filed by another user as a OpenFOAM reader bug.
> http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=11516
>
> Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
> Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
> 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
>
> From: Takuya OSHIMA <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp>
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] ParaView 3.8.1 hangs on select points/cells for plugin-generated multiblock data set
> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:06:20 +0900 (JST)
>
>> Hi Karl,
>>
>> A user has reported the problem on the CFD-Online forum recently which
>> I also was able to reproduce on OS X.
>> http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/74355-issue-involving-paraview.html#post281435
>> (the discussion starts from Oct. 30)
>> I didn't file the problem as a bug because as written in my post I see
>> the problem only with 3.8.1 but not with 3.8.0 or 3.9-Development.
>>
>> p.s.:
>>> * File - Open - "bcOscilating/system/controlDict.foam" - Ok
>>> * Ignore the warning about missing time dependent data. Irrelevant here.
>>> * Change File Name to "bcOscilating\system\fvSchemes" - Apply
>>
>> You should be able to open bcOscilating/system/controlDict :)
>>
>> Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
>> Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
>> 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
>>
>>
>> From: Karl König <kkoenig11 at web.de>
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] ParaView 3.8.1 hangs on select points/cells for plugin-generated multiblock data set
>> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:59:46 +0100
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Actually, the very same behavior can be observed with a completely
>>> different plugin, developed independently - Takuya Oshima's Parallelized
>>> Native OpenFOAM Reader Plugin: No point/cell selection problems when the
>>> plugin is compiled for 32-bit or 64-bit Linux against the official PV
>>> Development release 3.8.1, but ParaView 3.8.1 hangs (both 32-bit and
>>> 64-bit) if the plugin is compiled with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 against
>>> the official PV Development Installation for Windows.
>>>
>>> Recipe:
>>> * Get the plugin source
>>>   (see
>>> http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Contrib_Parallelized_Native_OpenFOAM_Reader_for_ParaView)
>>>   svn co
>>> https://of-interfaces.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/of-interfaces/trunk/vtkPOFFReader
>>> * CMake, then compile the plugin with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (32-bit or
>>> 64-bit)
>>> * Start ParaView 3.8.1 (Win32 or Win64)
>>>   (downloaded from
>>> http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.8/ParaView-3.8.1-Win*-x86.exe)
>>> * Tools - Manage Plugins - Load New... -
>>> "Release/POFFDevReaderPanelPlugin.dll" +
>>> "Release/POFFDevReaderPlugin.dll" - Close
>>>
>>> Download a sample OpenFOAM data set, e.g.
>>> http://openfoamwiki.net/images/e/e1/BcOscilating.tar.gz. Untar.
>>>
>>> * File - Open - "bcOscilating/system/controlDict.foam" - Ok
>>> * Ignore the warning about missing time dependent data. Irrelevant here.
>>> * Change File Name to "bcOscilating\system\fvSchemes" - Apply
>>> * (optional:) Color by cell data array named "p".
>>> * (optional:) Representation "Surface with Edges"
>>> * Lasso select with either SelectPoints or SelectCells
>>> => PV 3.8.1 hangs
>>>    (no such problem with SelectPointsThrough or SelectCellsThrough,
>>>     though, as with the minimal reader posted previously)
>>>
>>> Does anyone else notice such strange behavior with his multiblock reader
>>> plugins on Windows?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any feedback,
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Karl König wrote, On 24.11.2010 09:04:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've a multiblock reader plugin which behaves nicely in Unix
>>>> environments (Linux and Solaris, 32 and 64bit), but seems to cause
>>>> problems under Windows (XP and 7, 32 and 64bit, compiled with Visual
>>>> Studio 2008 SP1 against official PV Development release):
>>>> Importing the data, viewing the data and exporting the data to different
>>>> file formats (e.g. as *.vtm) and importing that data again into ParaView
>>>> works without any problem, but whenever I use SelectCells or
>>>> SelectPoints from the selection toolbar and lasso select an area from an
>>>> object imported by this reader, ParaView hangs - under Windows, not in a
>>>> Unix environment. If, however, one applies a MergeBlocks filter first
>>>> and then lasso selects an area, there is no problem.
>>>>
>>>> I boiled down the reader to a minimal test case, it's more or less a
>>>> mere source now (but still implemented as a reader) and am attaching the
>>>> source code. Once compiled, it will integrate into paraview and offer to
>>>> open any file named *.mini (there is one in subdirectory sample-input).
>>>> The content of the file is completely ignored, instead a multiblock
>>>> containing one unstructured grid with exactly one cube is created. This
>>>> is enough to trigger the problem.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to know whether this is a problem with the ParaView Windows
>>>> builds or whether I am misconstructing a multiblock data set which
>>>> somehow confuses only Windows builds. I tend to believe the latter (as a
>>>> data object generator source using the program "MB { UG1 }" does not
>>>> cause ParaView to hang when trying to select something), but have no
>>>> idea what I might be doing wrong.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for any feedback
>>>> Karl
>>>
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