[Paraview] Plugin works - doesnt - works - doesnt - ...

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

If you start paraview with "-dr" command line option everytime, do you
still see the odd/even behavior?

Utkarsh

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Christian Werner
<christian.werner at rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am experiencing strange behaviour in ParaView. Believe it or not, I have a
> plugin that works every second time I start Paraview. I am doing the exactly
> same thing with one specific image, all steps are absolutely identical,
> still it works exactly only every second time.
> If I have, say, an even Paraview Session, the plugin works any time. I can
> use it as much as I like, change values, update it, remove it, use it again,
> ... it just works.
>
> The other (odd) time I get:
>
>
> Warning: In /opt/ParaView3.7/Servers/Filters/vtkTexturePainter.cxx, line 180
>
> vtkTexturePainter (0x1b64340): Failed to locate selected scalars. Will use
> image scalars by default.
>
>
> This holds for an older and the actual cvs version 3.7. When I compile the
> plugin for 3.6 it works ALWAYS.
>
> I have difficulties in locating what the problem is. It seems that it is
> because I am using ITK filters in this plugin (derived from
> vtkSimpleImageToImageFilter) - all my VTK-only filters work without a
> problem. Maybe these scalars get somehow messed up during the conversion
> between ITK and VTK (every second time ...)
>
> I know this most probably won't help you developers find any bug but I am
> asking because maybe this is somehow a known issue...? Something must have
> changed since Paraview 3.6 here... Since it works for many image types it is
> quite big, so I can't attach it to let you check this.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
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