[Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

[Michael Jackson]

Well, this is really getting weird. I have to admit that I have NOT  
tried it on anything other than OS X with Qt/Cocoa. I am going to try  
with OS X/Qt-Carbon (Qt 4.6.2) and see what happens. I guess I'll try  
Windows Next.

--
Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>

On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Sven Buijssen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tested my nightly clean builds of ParaView CVS HEAD (pulled via  
> git) + Qt 4.5.2 on
> * SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2
> * Ubuntu 9.10 Server 64bit
> * openSuSE 10.2 64bit
> * openSuSE 11.1 32bit
> * SPARC Solaris 10 64bit (PV CVS 2010-02-25, nothing newer as I'm  
> having some
> trouble with Mesa since Dave's commit Fri Feb 26 17:57:21 2010 +0000)
>
> I see for all builds both point "Ids" and cell "Ids" in the Color By  
> menu.
>
> I also checked the tarballs of all nightly builds since beginning of  
> February
> 2010 on openSuSE 11.1 and could not reproduce the issue. Cell Ids is  
> always there.
>
> Sven
>
>
> Michael Jackson wrote, On 01.03.2010 15:47:
>> Here is a screen shot. I updated to latest cvs and recompiled.  
>> Still no
>> joy. I even tried saving the data set to a new file, then loading the
>> file. No luck there either. Any other suggestions are welcome. I do  
>> have
>> the data file if you are interested.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ___________________________________________________________
>> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
>>
>>
>> On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Jérôme wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I just updated my worktree with the latest CVS. The problem
>>> remains,
>>> both in debug and release. Note that Yum (package manager of Fedora)
>>> installs qt-4.6.2.
>>>
>>> I will trace the code tomorrow monday.
>>>
>>> Jerome
>>>
>>> 2010/2/28 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
>>> That is weird. I am on Mac with Qt 4.6.0, Cocoa and the latest CVS
>>> ParaView and I see both point "Ids" and cell "Ids" in the Color By
>>> menu. I'll test it out with my linux box at work tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Utkarsh
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Michael Jackson
>>> <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>>>> Maybe it is Qt versions or ParaView versions? I am using Qt 4.6.1
>>> compiled
>>>> for Cocoa on OS X 10.5.8 Intel. I am using ParaView from <url =
>>>> git://github.com/Kitware/ParaView.git> which was last updated about
>>> a week
>>>> ago. When I get to the office on Monday I can try the same with
>>> ParaView
>>>> 3.6.2 and see if the problem persists.
>>>>
>>>> As far as Data, I _could_ share it, but like Jerome stated, you can
>>>> reproduce it with a simple sphere source, then "Generate  
>>>> Normals". The
>>>> complete source code can be found here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>> <href=http://www.bluequartz.net/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=PVMXADataModel.git;a=blob;f=Source/Server/CrystalInterfaceColoringFilter/vtkCrystalInterfaceColoringFilter.cpp;hb=de5d94a3a128a08a534230deca9057e4e57d0358 
>>> >
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _________________________________________________________
>>>> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 28, 2010, at 7:51 AM, Jérôme wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I confirm the problem: even with your script, CELL_DATA are not
>>> enabled.
>>>>> They don't appear in the "Color by" combo box, but the cell Ids  
>>>>> are
>>>>> present
>>>>> in the Information panel. It works as expected when I try with
>>> POINT_DATA.
>>>>>
>>>>> I just had a doubt: Qt has been updated to 4.6 recently on my
>>> computer,
>>>>> and
>>>>> I don't know if my ParaView is up-to-date according to this...
>>>>>
>>>>> Let's update, compile, wait and see.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jerome
>>>>>
>>>>> 2010/2/28 Favre Jean <jfavre at cscs.ch>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I noted this problem a few days ago.
>>>>> A *really* simple example:
>>>>> - Add a SphereSource
>>>>> - Connect to a "Generate Ids" filter
>>>>> - Update: The information panel shows a 'Ids' array for points  
>>>>> and for
>>>>> cells, but
>>>>> the "Color by" doesn't give the choice of cell array.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jerome
>>>>> -----------------
>>>>>
>>>>> I cannot reproduce the problem. The following code works exactly  
>>>>> as
>>>>> expected and enables the coloring by POINT_DATA or CELL_DATA
>>>>>
>>>>> sph1 = Sphere()
>>>>> genid1 = GenerateIds(Input=sph1)
>>>>> rep1 = Show(genid1)
>>>>> rep1.ColorArrayName = 'Ids'
>>>>> rep1.ColorAttributeType = 'CELL_DATA'
>>>>>
>>>>> ----------------
>>>>> Jean M. Favre
>>>>> Swiss National Supercomputing Center
>>>>
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