[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] a new user with a simple question

[James Feng]

Now, I had another chance to reproduce this problem (with ParaView
3.12.0).  I just put together a new PC and had OpenSUSE 12.3 installed as
the base OS.  I noticed that I have the same problem with "plot-over-line"
as that with the Acer machine: the plot-over-line sub-window is blank.  The
similarity between this new PC and Acer is that they both have OpenSUSE
12.3 installed as the base OS and then they both have virtualbox (same
version 4.3.6) installed on OpenSUSE.  Although not 100% sure, the problem
seemed to appear after I installed the virtualbox.  But I could not recover
the plot-over-line functionality by deleting the virtualbox in YaST.  As a
test, I had OpenSUSE 12.3 installed in a virtualbox on a Win 7 PC, on which
I installed the same version of ParaView and plot-over-line worked fine
there.  Thus, it's nothing wrong with OpenSUSE 12.3 (if I don't install
virtualbox on it).  The question is why, and what specific driver is
screwed at this point.




On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:17 PM, James Feng <jfeng at optomec.com> wrote:

> I have an Acer computer with OpenSUSE 12.3 installed as the base OS.  When
> I first installed OpenFOAM (which uses ParaFoam -- a paraview-based
> postprocessor), everything worked normal and I could have the
> plot-over-line do what it's supposed to do.  Then I started mess around
> with the ParaFoam (to get what I'd like to see) and at some point I lost
> the normal behavior of plot-over-line (which I cannot recall what exactly I
> did).   However, all other functions of paraview seem to work fine.  So
> it's hard for me to believe the problem is the bad driver or bad graphic
> card.
>
> I also tried to install Ubuntu on the vbox on this same computer, where I
> installed a fresh OpenFOAM and the parafoam worked fine with the
> plot-over-line.  So, I firmly believe there's something I screwed with
> the paraview settings, which I could not get back by re-compiling it (in
> the "thirdparty" directory of OpenFOAM) with the *.ini file deleted in the
> ./config/paraview/ directory.  I wonder if there could be something else
> stuck on this OS.  I hate to wipe everything out and re-install
> this OpenSUSE because there are other OSs on the vbox all based on it.
>
> If there's anything I can do with the current "screwed" paraview to bring
> the plot-over-line back, I'm willing to try.
>
> Thanks, Alan.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
>>  Just guessing here - I wonder if you have a bad driver and /or graphics
>> card?  If ParaView works one place, and doesn't the other, your data is
>> probably good.  Assuming you are using a Kitware download, I assume that
>> shouldn't be the issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> What OS?  Can you draw lines?  (in a 3d window, Sources/ Line).
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* James Feng [mailto:jfeng at optomec.com]
>> *Sent:* Friday, February 28, 2014 3:16 PM
>> *To:* Scott, W Alan
>> *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] a new user with a simple question
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I tried rm paraview .ini  file and indeed got a fresh start with paraFoam
>> (by looking at the "Recent" tab under "Filter").   However, on one of
>> my computers (unlike the others) the plotOverLine window is still blank
>> (without anything visible, not even the coordinates).  I tried to put in a
>> "Chart Title" but it does not appear in the blank window (although colors
>> were assigned to data sets).  I tried "Save Data" and looked at the csv
>> file, which shows the data were there.  which might be due to that the data
>> did not get in there.   Could there be something else I can do to manually
>> get the data (over line) plotted in that window?   Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
>> wrote:
>>
>> This web site tells you how to do it - from the ParaView Wiki.
>> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_Settings_Files.  Just delete the
>> configuration files.
>>
>>
>>
>> You can also find out if taking ParaView to initial conditions is what
>> you want.  Run paraview -dr (disable registry), and that does the same
>> thing as deleting the configuration files.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *James
>> Feng
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:15 AM
>> *To:* paraview at paraview.org
>> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] a new user with a simple question
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello ParaView,
>>
>>
>>
>> I tried to use ParaFoam (ParaView) with OpenFoam.  During my several
>> trial-and-error playing-without-knowing, I lost the "plotOverLine" display
>> (although the plotOverLine sub-window still comes up but without any curves
>> and axes appearing).  I wanted to get the original "settings" back (because
>> I had a working plotOverLine in the beginning), but haven't been able to.
>> I re-installed OpenFoam and re-compiled ParaFoam; neither of those could
>> get me a fresh start.  The ParaFoam window seems to always remember what I
>> had last time.   So, I wonder if you can tell me how I can get ParaView to
>> the initial (default?) state as if I had it installed the first time?
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>>
>>
>> James Feng
>>
>>
>>
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