[Paraview] Fwd: Image Doesn't load correctly

Dean, Kevin kevin.dean at decisionsciencescorp.com
Tue May 5 19:39:25 EDT 2015


nevermind, I figured it out.

the xml I had didn't like having a documentation section within the string
vector property

Kevin

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Dean, Kevin <
kevin.dean at decisionsciencescorp.com> wrote:

> ok, now I am getting new and exciting error messages for loading the
> plugin... it doesn't seem to enjoy this line from the XML
>
> <FileListDomain name="files"/>
>
> errors:
>
> ERROR: In
> /home/kdean/tmp/install_PV_source/ParaView/VTK/IO/XMLParser/vtkXMLParser.cxx,
> line 483
> vtkPVXMLParser (0x35d8d20): Error parsing XML in stream at line 18, column
> 8, byte index 632: not well-formed (invalid token)
>
>
> ERROR: In
> /home/kdean/tmp/install_PV_source/ParaView/VTK/IO/XMLParser/vtkXMLParser.cxx,
> line 483
> vtkPVXMLParser (0x238f5a0): Error parsing XML in stream at line 18, column
> 8, byte index 632: not well-formed (invalid token)
>
>
> ERROR: In
> /home/kdean/tmp/install_PV_source/ParaView/ParaViewCore/ServerImplementation/Core/vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager.cxx,
> line 565
> vtkSIProxyDefinitionManager (0x1815770): No proxy that matches:
> group=sources and proxy=vtkPVPROTOImageReader were found.
>
> Error opening file  ".../protobuf."
>
> Kevin E. Dean
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Burlen Loring <bloring at lbl.gov> wrote:
>
>>  at the moment I do not implement that.
>>
>> this may be the source of your issues, I thought that if you don't return
>> 1 from this function PV will assume your reader is not the right one and
>> skip it(ie never call SetFileName). But if that were really true I don't
>> get how RequestData is getting called...
>>
>>
>>
>> On 05/05/2015 10:00 AM, Dean, Kevin wrote:
>>
>> at the moment I do not implement that. I am assuming that may be the
>> reason why I get this message every time i load the shared object file...
>>
>> ERROR: In
>> /home/kdean/tmp/install_PV_source/ParaView/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/Core/vtkSMProperty.cxx,
>> line 552
>> vtkSMStringVectorProperty (0x3cb10f0): Could not create object of type:
>> vtkSMFileListDoman. Did you specify wrong xml element?
>>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Burlen Loring <bloring at lbl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>>  ParaView should set it after it determines if the reader can read it.
>>> Did you also implement CanReadFile? Maybe the problem is in that function.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/05/2015 09:09 AM, Dean, Kevin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Dean, Kevin <kevin.dean at decisionsciencescorp.com>
>>> Date: Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:10 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Image Doesn't load correctly
>>> To: Burlen Loring <burlen.loring at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>  awesome, thanks, that did it.
>>>
>>> One more question. Is there a way to debug the FileName aspect of the
>>> reader. I can't figure out how it's supposed to get set. The only way I can
>>> get the image to show is by hard
>>> coding it within the RequestData() function.
>>>
>>>  Thanks Again
>>>
>>>  Kevin E. Dean
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Burlen Loring <burlen.loring at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi Kevin.
>>>>
>>>> Your RequestInformation looks a little bare. Unless things have changed
>>>> recently, you might need to set WHOLE_EXTENT, ORIGIN, SPACING,
>>>> CAN_PRODUCE_SUB_EXTENT keys there. and if you support parallel IO honor the
>>>> requested extent in RequestData.
>>>>
>>>> Burlen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05/04/2015 09:52 AM, Dean, Kevin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   So I am still having a few issues with the reader. I have checked
>>>> the output from the information Panel. And it seems as if all the
>>>> information is the same. So maybe the data is getting deleted somehow (I'm
>>>> not sure...., but here is a snippet of my code);
>>>>
>>>> int vtkPVPROTOImageReader::RequestInformation (
>>>>    vtkInformation*,
>>>>    vtkInformationVector**,
>>>>    vtkInformationVector* outputVector)
>>>> {
>>>>    vtkInformation* outInfo = outputVector->GetInformationObject(0);
>>>>    vtkDataObject::SetPointDataActiveScalarInfo(outInfo,
>>>> VTK_UNSIGNED_CHAR, 1);
>>>>
>>>>    return 1;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> int vtkPVPROTOImageReader::RequestData(vtkInformation
>>>> *vtkNotUsed(request),
>>>>                                        vtkInformationVector
>>>> **inputVector,
>>>>                                        vtkInformationVector
>>>> *outputVector)
>>>> {
>>>>     ... conversion code from protobuf
>>>>
>>>>   /* Convert from protobuf to vtkImageData */
>>>>   vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageData> image = "function converting to
>>>> protobuf";
>>>>
>>>>   vtkDataArray* scalars = image->GetPointData()->GetScalars();
>>>>   scalars->SetName("ReconstructionData");
>>>>
>>>>   /* Get the info object */
>>>>   vtkInformation *outInfo = outputVector->GetInformationObject(0);
>>>>   outInfo->Set(vtkDataObject::DATA_TYPE_NAME(), "vtkImageData");
>>>>
>>>>   /* Get the output */
>>>>   vtkImageData* output = vtkImageData::GetData(outputVector);
>>>>
>>>> //  output->SetSpacing(image->GetSpacing());
>>>> //  output->SetOrigin(image->GetOrigin());
>>>> //  output->AllocateScalars(outInfo);
>>>> //
>>>> output->GetPointData()->SetScalars(image->GetPointData()->GetScalars());
>>>> //  output->SetDimensions(image->GetDimensions());
>>>>
>>>>   output->ShallowCopy(image);
>>>>
>>>>   int* dimensions = output->GetDimensions();
>>>>
>>>>   std::cout << "\nNumber of points: " << output->GetNumberOfPoints() <<
>>>> std::endl;
>>>>   std::cout << "Number of cells: " << output->GetNumberOfCells() <<
>>>> "\n" << std::endl;
>>>>
>>>>  // print out the pixel values to see if they are actually present
>>>>   for (int z = 0; z < dimensions[2]; z++)
>>>>   {
>>>>     for (int y = 0; y < dimensions[1]; y++)
>>>>     {
>>>>       for (int x = 0; x < dimensions[0]; x++)
>>>>       {
>>>>         double* pixel =
>>>> static_cast<double*>(output->GetScalarPointer(x,y,z));
>>>>         // do something with v
>>>>         std::cout << "pixel value: " << pixel[0] << "\n";
>>>>       }
>>>>       std::cout << std::endl;
>>>>     }
>>>>     std::cout << std::endl;
>>>>   }
>>>>
>>>>   // write output to file and compare in visualization window...
>>>>   vtkSmartPointer<vtkXMLImageDataWriter> vtk_writer =
>>>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkXMLImageDataWriter>::New();
>>>>   vtk_writer->SetInputData(output);
>>>>   vtk_writer->SetFileName( "/home/kdean/tmp/foo.vti" );
>>>>   vtk_writer->Update();
>>>>   vtk_writer->Write();
>>>>
>>>>   return 1;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Another Problem I ran into:
>>>>  So I had to hardcode a file for the char *FileName into the
>>>> RequestData Function in order to read any protobuf file. I ran a debugger
>>>> on the code, and it seems like these functions from the header file (of the
>>>> reader):
>>>>
>>>> vtkGetStringMacro(FileName);
>>>> vtkSetStringMacro(FileName);
>>>>
>>>>  they are never getting called.
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>  Kevin
>>>>
>>>>  here are my xml too... it looks right, but maybe I am missing
>>>> something.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
>>>> utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You can also use the Information panel to see what arrays are being
>>>>> read in and what their ranges are.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Dean, Kevin
>>>>> <kevin.dean at decisionsciencescorp.com> wrote:
>>>>> > looked at the spreadsheet view in the GUI, and it looks like none of
>>>>> the
>>>>> > Point Data is actually being copied...
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Dean, Kevin
>>>>> > <kevin.dean at decisionsciencescorp.com> wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> What's up Utkarsh?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> So I was able to write that plugin and convert my image to the
>>>>> >> vtkImageData. However, I am having trouble visualizing the image.
>>>>> However,
>>>>> >> when I write out the output from my reader, the image gets written
>>>>> >> correctly... Here are some pictures to show the differences. (All
>>>>> the
>>>>> >> information for the images is exactly the same) Do you have an idea
>>>>> of how I
>>>>> >> can try to fix it? Thanks.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Kevin E. Dean
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
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