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

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Perfect. In that case, I will close this bug.

Thanks
Utkarsh

2010/12/6 Takuya OSHIMA <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp>:
> Hi Utkarsh,
>
> Correct, as far as I tested, the problem is no longer present in 3.9.
>
> Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
> Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
> 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
>
> From: Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] ParaView 3.8.1 hangs on select points/cells for plugin-generated multiblock data set
> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:55:04 -0500
>
>> 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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