[Paraview] Parallel rendering of Text sources

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Not sure about 3.8.1, but it's definitely fixed in the development
version and will be for the upcoming release 3.10.0. The release
candidate binaries should be available for download in the next few
days.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Eelco van Vliet <eelcovv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear paraviewers,
>
> I am trying render in parallel a scene + text. Unfortunately: the
> TextSourceRepresentation of the text does not work in parallel (is works in
> serial)
>
> If I do
>
> sm=servermanager
> sm.Connect()
> RenderView1 = sm.CreateRenderView()
> t=sm.sources.Text(Text="HELLO")
> timerep=sm.CreateRepresentation(t,RenderView1,proxyName="TextSourceRepresentation")
> RenderView1.StillRender()
>
> in shows a label in serial, but if a run the script on more the 2 cores, I
> get the mesaage
>
> +++++++
>  Process id: 1 >> ERROR: In
> /scratch/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Filtering/vtkDemandDrivenPipel     49 ine.cxx,
> line 827
>      50 vtkCompositeDataPipeline (0xdce1a0): Input for connection index 0 on
> input port index     50  0 for algorithm vtkTransmitPolyDataPiece(0xdcca20)
> is of type vtkTable, but a vtkPol     50 yData is required.
> ++++++++
>
> An alternative way I found leads to the same problem if I do
>
>  timerep=sm.rendering.TextSourceRepresentation(Input=t)
> RenderView1.Representations.append(timerep)
>
> I have found that more people had problems with TextSourceRepresentation in
> parallel :
>
> http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2008-April/007550.html
>
> Apparently there was a bug found in 2008. Does anybody if in the new version
> 3.81 this bug is still present ? What would I need to do to fix the bug.
>
> Any comments and hints appreciated !
> Many thanks
>
> Eelco
>
>
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