[Paraview] ParaView can't create the reader

[Jérémy Santina]

Thank you very much for your answer.

I am sorry for my awful English and I hope you'll understand what I am
writing.

I read the email you sent and I tried to build my reader following the
instructions provided here :
https://code.google.com/p/unofficial-paraview-dev-install/wiki/vtkPOFFReaderBuilds

First of all, I downloaded this archive :
ParaView-4.1.0-win64-complete_dev-r2.exe
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluecfd-sc/files/unofficial-paraview-dev-install/ParaView-4.1.0/ParaView-4.1.0-win64-complete_dev-r2.exe/download>
Then I installed Qt 4.8.2 from here :
https://code.google.com/p/qt-msvc-installer/. Finally when I am trying to
configure my reader with the CMake GUI, the QT_MAKE_EXECUTABLE can't be
found even if I select qmake.exe directly from the path.

<http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluecfd-sc/files/unofficial-paraview-dev-install/ParaView-4.1.0/ParaView-4.1.0-win64-complete_dev-r2.exe/download>
In fact I am a beginner and I don't really know how to use CMake. I
modified the CMakeLists.txt that I found here :
http://sourceforge.net/p/of-interfaces/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/vtkPOFFReader/
but I am not sure about what I wrote. My CMakeLists file is joined with
this message.

Besides, I noticed that when I am executing
*qt-win64-opensource-4.8.2-vs2008.exe,
*a dialog box with the following message is opened :

*A installation of Visual Studio 2008 was not found in the registry ,
guessing path...*

In spite of that, the installation seems to work perfectly fine but : I
have Visual C++ Express 2008 on my computer so is it normal to get this
message ?

To finish, I would like to ask you one last question :
Given I didn't develop any GUI feature for my reader, do I still need QT ?

I thank you again for your help.

Jérémy


2014-08-08 18:49 GMT+02:00 Bruno Santos <bruno.santos at bluecape.com.pt>:

>  Greetings Jérémy,
>
> If you had provided the XML file, it would have been a bit easier to
> diagnose this ourselves.
> Nonetheless, it seems to me that the issue is that the class/library
> "vtkPTecplotBinaryReader" is simply not loadable. A bit of searching online
> and in ParaView's source code leads me to believe that only the class
> "vtkTecplotReader" is available for loading through an XML only plug-in.
>
> If the class "vtkPTecplotBinaryReader" is a custom library you've
> built/created from source code, then have a look at a recent email I sent
> to this very same mailing list:
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2014-August/031817.html
>
> Best regards,
> Bruno
>
>
> On 05-08-2014 15:48, Jérémy Santina wrote:
>
>   Hello,
>
>  I have written my own reader for ParaView and I am facing with some
> issues.
>
> My version of ParaView is 4.1 for Windows-64 bit and I didn't build it
> from sources.
>
>  As the wiki
> <http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_a_Reader>
> describes, I wrote a Server Manager XML file.
>  Then I set the environment flag PV_PLUGIN_DEBUG.
>
> Everything seems to work fine when I load the reader with Plugin Manager
> as the output messages dialog box indicates :
>
> ***************************************************
>
> Attempting to load
> C:\Users\Windows\Documents\Travail\ParaviewProject\VTKReaders\Plugin\TecplotBinaryReader.xml
>
> Loading XML plugin
>
> Plugin instance located successfully. Now loading components from the
> plugin instance based on the interfaces it implements.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Plugin Information:
>
> Name : TecplotBinaryReader
>
> Version : 1.0
>
> ReqOnServer : 1
>
> ReqOnClient : 0
>
> ReqPlugins :
>
> ServerManager Plugin : Yes
>
> Python Plugin : No
>
>  But when I try to open a file, ParaView crashes and I get the following
> error message :
>
> ERROR: In
> C:\DBD\pvs-x64\paraview\src\paraview\ParaViewCore\ServerImplementation\Core\vtkSIProxy.cxx,
> line 307
>
> vtkSISourceProxy (000000000B340ED0): Failed to create
> vtkPTecplotBinaryReader. Aborting for debugging purposes.
>
>
>  What am I doing wrong ?
>
>
>  Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
>  Jérémy
>
>
>
>
>
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SERVER_MANAGER_XML TecplotBinaryReader.xml
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# modification there seems to be no way to tell exactly whether
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