[Paraview] Bug: Failure to open FLASH file on a PowerBook

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Klaus,

Can you send us the data again please? Dave is away and not sure when
I'd be able to get in touch with him.

Utkarsh

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Klaus Weide <klaus at flash.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just installed ParaView 3.8.0 on a PowerBook G4 (Mac OS X 10.4.11).
>
> On opening a FLASH file, I get the output message:
>
> Generic Warning: In
> /Users/partyd/Dashboards/MyTests/ParaView-3-8-0/ParaView/Servers/Filters/vtkFlashReader.cxx,
> line 764
> Inconsistency in the number of blocks.
>
> After that, the Object Inspector shows no useful information about the
> file (other than Filename and Path).
>
> I gave Dave DeMarle a copy of the same file, he was able to successfully
> open it on his laptop.  He thinks the problem is caused by the different
> byte ordering on PowerPC.  This should be easy to fix since the underlying
> file format of the FLASH format is HDF5.
>
> Klaus
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