[Paraview] Bug in Paraview 4.2 example + fix

[B.W.H. van Beest]

Could perhaps somebody of Kitware react to this posting of a bug?
I noticed a similar issue with the Example plugin "HiddenLinesRemoval",
although in that case there seems to be more wrong.

Regards,
Bertwim


On 10/07/2014 10:30 PM, B.W.H. van Beest wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think there is a bug in the plugin example in 
> ../ParaView/Examples/Plugin/Representation (Paraview 4.2)
>
> As given, loading the plugin manually, and then creating a new source
> (e.g. Box) causes Paraview to crash with the error message:
>
>> ERROR: In
>> /usr/local/git/ParaView/ParaViewCore/ServerImplementation/Core/vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager.cxx,
>> line 565
>> vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager (0x265ebb0): No proxy that matches:
>> group=representations and proxy=SurfaceRepresentationBase were found.
>>
>>
>> ERROR: In
>> /usr/local/git/ParaView/ParaViewCore/ServerImplementation/Core/vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager.cxx,
>> line 989
>> vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager (0x265ebb0): Failed to locate base proxy
>> definition (representations, SurfaceRepresentationBase). Aborting for
>> debugging purposes.
>>
>>
>> Abort
> The error seems to be in the file Representation.xml, where the attribute
> base_proxyname is set to "SurfaceRepresentationBase", which should be
> "SurfaceRepresentation" according to the documentation in
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_new_Representations_for_3D_View_using_Plugins_.2A_new_in_version_3.7
>
> When I make the change, recompile the plugin and load in into Paraview,
> there is no longer the above crash when I create a new Box, and the
> representation "Special Mapper" feautures in the Representationnn combobox.
>
>> [243] Representation> diff Representation.xml.org Representation.xml
>> 7c7
>> <       base_proxyname="SurfaceRepresentationBase">
>> ---
>>>       base_proxyname="SurfaceRepresentation">
> Kind Regards,
> Bertwim
>
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