[Paraview] VTK reader does not populate properties dialog?

[Sebastien Jourdain]

In the toolbar, you have to select "Surface" instead of "Outline", and
slightly on the left change "Solid Color" by your field name.

Seb

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Alexander Tchekhovskoy
<atchekho at princeton.edu> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am having trouble reading a binary VTK file in Paraview. Here is a simple
> VTK file (zipped paraview_test.vtk:
> http://www.princeton.edu/~atchekho/paraview_test.zip , 29Kb) generated by
> visit_writer plugin for VisIt. The file uses a curvilinear structured grid.
>  The file opens and renders OK in VisIt.  However, when I open it in
> ParaView, the grid shows fine but the properties box stays empty (see
> screenshot at http://www.princeton.edu/~atchekho/properties_tab.jpg , 83Kb),
> and I cannot visualize any variables.  I know the variables are there
> because the Information tab does show the variable ("B") that is in the file
> (see screenshot at http://www.princeton.edu/~atchekho/information_tab.jpg ,
> 115 Kb).  I tried searching on the web and found that this can happen if a
> reader plugin does not populate the properties
> (http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2011-April/021081.html). In this
> case reader plugin is a standard VTK reader.  Is this a known bug?
>
> Thank you,
> Alexander
>
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