[Paraview] 3.14 pvsc enumeration issues

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Sounds good to me. Or always mangle VisIt classes for PointSprite,
until we have time to fix the PointSprite plugin cleanly.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Robert Maynard
<robert.maynard at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think we can fix this by modifying the PointSprite plugin to check to see
> if the VisIt Bridge is enabled and to conditional building the conflicting
> classes only when the Bridge is disabled or we can name mangle the VisIt
> classes that the PointSprite plugin is building.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Burlen Loring <bloring at lbl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, misread your reply, sounds like you would prefer to keep
>> visit-bridge on. But will you disabled point-sprite in the binary release? I
>> noticed that when the client has it but server does not it causes a crash.
>>
>>
>> On 03/05/2012 11:11 AM, Burlen Loring wrote:
>>>
>>> So are you disabling VisIt bridge in the binary release? If not would it
>>> still lead to a crash if the binary has VB on, and the server has VB off?
>>>
>>> On 03/05/2012 11:21 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I believe we ran into that as well. Short of re-factoring the
>>>> PointSpritePlugin, the work around for now is to disable the
>>>> point-sprite plugin when using visit-bridge and static builds.
>>>>
>>>> Utkarsh
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Burlen Loring<bloring at lbl.gov>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Utkarsh,
>>>>>
>>>>> By the way, not a huge issue but I also had a problem with static
>>>>> builds
>>>>> when trying to enable the visit bridge. The visit bridge and the Point
>>>>> Sprite Pluign both had copies of some of the same code.
>>>>> http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=12972
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Burlen
>>>>>
>>>>> On 03/05/2012 10:12 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Burlen,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To give you an update, we have decided to put out a patch release
>>>>>> within the next week or so that should include the fix for this bug.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Utkarsh
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Burlen Loring<bloring at lbl.gov>
>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That seems to have fixed the problem, thanks Utkarsh!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 02/29/2012 03:43 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Burlen,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Attached is a patch. Can you please verify if that solves the issue?
>>>>>>>> Seems to working now in my tests.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>> Utkarsh
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
>>>>>>>> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>      wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Burlen,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I haven't tried reproducing the problem, but looking at the code,
>>>>>>>>> it's
>>>>>>>>> pretty obvious why it could fail. I'll work on a fix soon. I think
>>>>>>>>> this and few other state file backwards compatibility related
>>>>>>>>> issues
>>>>>>>>> that been reported may warrant a quick patch release. But I'll
>>>>>>>>> check
>>>>>>>>> with the team once I get back next week and give everyone an
>>>>>>>>> update.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Utkarsh
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Burlen Loring<bloring at lbl.gov>
>>>>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Rick,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> yes things are fine in 3.12 it's only with 3.14 that I'm having
>>>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>>>> issue.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Burlen
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 02/29/2012 10:52 AM, Angelini, Richard C CIV (US) wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Burlen - I've been testing with 3.12, not 3.14 ... did things
>>>>>>>>>>> work
>>>>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>>>>>> in 3.12 and they are now broken in 3.14?
>>>>>>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>>>>>>> Rick Angelini
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> USArmy Research Laboratory
>>>>>>>>>>> Computational Sciences Division/Computing Architectures Branch
>>>>>>>>>>> HPC Architectures Development Team
>>>>>>>>>>> ARL/DSRC (DoD Shared Resource Center)  Data Analysis&
>>>>>>>>>>>  Assessment
>>>>>>>>>>>  Center
>>>>>>>>>>> Phone:  410-278-6266
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>>>>>>>> From: Burlen Loring [bloring at lbl.gov]
>>>>>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:29 PM
>>>>>>>>>>> To: Angelini, Richard C CIV (US)
>>>>>>>>>>> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
>>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] 3.14 pvsc enumeration issues
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Rick,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Good, maybe it's something specific to my configuration although
>>>>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>>>>> don't
>>>>>>>>>>> have any idea what it could be off hand. Just to be sure: do you
>>>>>>>>>>> mean
>>>>>>>>>>> that you haven't had noticed problems or that you've positively
>>>>>>>>>>> verified
>>>>>>>>>>> that after using the enum once you could change the value?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>>>>>> Burlen
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 02/29/2012 10:31 AM, Angelini, Richard C CIV (US) wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> What platform is the client running on?   We make extensive use
>>>>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>>>>> pvsc
>>>>>>>>>>>> and enumerations and have not seen this  (mis)behavior on our
>>>>>>>>>>>> Mac/Linux
>>>>>>>>>>>> client workstations......
>>>>>>>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>>>>>>>> Rick Angelini
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> USArmy Research Laboratory
>>>>>>>>>>>> Computational Sciences Division/Computing Architectures Branch
>>>>>>>>>>>> HPC Architectures Development Team
>>>>>>>>>>>> ARL/DSRC (DoD Shared Resource Center)  Data Analysis&
>>>>>>>>>>>> Assessment
>>>>>>>>>>>>  Center
>>>>>>>>>>>> Phone:  410-278-6266
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> ________________________________________
>>>>>>>>>>>> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org
>>>>>>>>>>>> [paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
>>>>>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>>>>>> behalf of Burlen Loring [bloring at lbl.gov]
>>>>>>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:58 PM
>>>>>>>>>>>> To: paraview at paraview.org
>>>>>>>>>>>> Subject: [Paraview] 3.14 pvsc enumeration issues
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I've encountered bugs with pvsc enumerations in version 3.14.0.
>>>>>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>>>>> the attached pvsc that makes use of a couple of enumerations.
>>>>>>>>>>>> After
>>>>>>>>>>>> connecting once w/ this pvsc, neither of the enums save the
>>>>>>>>>>>> user's
>>>>>>>>>>>> choice in the GUI the next time the server is used. However they
>>>>>>>>>>>> seem
>>>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>> remember the user's last choice internally and always uses that
>>>>>>>>>>>> instead
>>>>>>>>>>>> of what the user has selected in the GUI. Neither setting
>>>>>>>>>>>> save=false
>>>>>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>>>>>> removing the default attribute helps. I filed the bug report
>>>>>>>>>>>> here.
>>>>>>>>>>>> http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=12969 If it's confirmed
>>>>>>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>> bug be fixed in another 3.14 release? or should I simply remove
>>>>>>>>>>>> enumerations from our pvsc's for 3.14?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Burlen
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
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