[Paraview] Bug in Paraview 4.2 example + fix

[Cory Quammen]

Hi Bertwim,

Thanks for reporting this bug and proposing a fix.

I posted your report as a bug in the bug tracker:

http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15044

I also pushed a git topic to gerrit with your fix and some fixes for
the HiddenLinesRemoval plugin. Please feel free to review it:

http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/4837/

Thanks,
Cory

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:53 PM, B.W.H. van Beest <bwvb at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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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