[Paraview] Warning about Version while Reading File

[Berk Geveci]

Actually, we changed how the ghost levels are handled and had to update the
format accordingly. It may be related to that. Dan would know more.

Best,
-berk

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> I'm surprised your file didn't cause a complaint in ParaView 4.2. The
> legacy VTK file reader in VTK hasn't changed in quite some years. What
> software writes your VTK file? If it were written with VTK (perhaps by
> way of ParaView), the file version number should be 4.2.
>
> By the way, this shouldn't be a problem other than annoying you with
> the warning message.
>
> Cory
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Fastl, Thomas <thomas.fastl at kcl.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> > Hello Community,
> >
> >
> > I just installed ParaView 5.0.0 and loaded a vtk-file which worked under
> > ParaView 4.2.0! Doing so I receive the warning 'Reading file version: 4.2
> > with older reader version 4.0', suggesting that an outdated vtk version
> is
> > used to read the file. I should mention that changing the header line in
> the
> > vtk-file from '# vtk DataFile Version 4.2' to '# vtk DataFile Version
> 4.2'
> > does the trick, however, I don't understand why ParaView complains? I
> read
> > that ParaView uses it's own vtk version which seems to be 7.1.0 (see
> below),
> > so why this warning? Is there anything else I can can do to fix that or
> is
> > this a bug in ParaView? Thanks!
> >
> >
> > from __future__import print_function
> >
> > import vtk
> >
> > print(vtk.vtkVersion.GetVTKSourceVersion())
> >
> >
> > Best wishes, Thomas
> >
> >
> >
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