[Paraview] ParaView 5.0.0 for Windows x64 fails to open EnSight Gold files

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Great! Thanks for testing, Andrew. Looks like we're pretty set for the
final 5.0.1 release. I'll tag it by the end of this week.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 2:36 AM, Andrew <antech777 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ParaView 5.0.1 RC2 for Win-64 has been tested with my big EnSight case. I
> loaded case successfully and created slice and vectors (glyphs) on it, no
> any issues occured. Great thanks for debugging!
>
> Meanwhile, I noticed that the color bar behavior is not as good as it was in
> version 4.3. The color bar doesn't adjusts automatically to round numbers
> (like my boss like to see in my reports :)), although it uses correct fonts
> (it's known that version 4.3 didn't enlarge color bar fonts in many cases
> despite of user's choice). But it's not a bug and scale can be adjusted by
> hand (it's done much more faster than in CFD Post that slowly rebuilds
> contour on every change on number of ticks, ParaView does it almost
> instantly). I read some discussions a bit and I suppose that the current
> behavior of color vr is a "common choice".
>
>
> 2016-03-21 8:34 GMT+03:00 Andrew <antech777 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Utkarsh,
>> Thanks for notification. I will try this version as soon as possible.
>>
>> 2016-03-21 4:41 GMT+03:00 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>:
>>>
>>> Andrew,
>>>
>>> ParaView 5.0.1-RC2 binaries are now available for download. Please
>>> give them a try and let me know if are still seeing the Ensight issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Utkarsh
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
>>> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> > The binaries have not yet been generated. You'll have to use RC2, not
>>> > RC1 for this fix.
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Andrew <antech777 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> Hello.
>>> >> I recieved an email about corrected ParaView-5.0.1 and decided to test
>>> >> the
>>> >> latest available official release for Win64:
>>> >> ParaView-5.0.1-RC1-Qt4-OpenGL2-Windows-64bit.zip
>>> >> I tried the same big EnSight case and the same error appeared (stat
>>> >> failed).
>>> >> Should be this release "patched" or it's not corrected yet and I
>>> >> should wait
>>> >> for another version?
>>> >> Thanks.
>>> >>
>>> >> 2016-03-09 23:42 GMT+03:00 Utkarsh Ayachit
>>> >> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> This merge request should address this issue:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/1320
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Once it's tested, reviewed etc. it'll be merged and I'll have it
>>> >>> updated in ParaView release 5.0.1 as well.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Utkarsh
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
>>> >>> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> >>> > I didn't but I didn't have to :). Your investigation lead me to in
>>> >>> > the
>>> >>> > right direction -- it just wasn't FILE_OFFSET_BITS that was the
>>> >>> > issue.
>>> >>> > It was the fact that on Windows the stat function is different,
>>> >>> > period. I am hoping to push a fix in for 5.0.1.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Andrew <antech777 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>> >> Utkarsh Ayachit,
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> Hello. Did you try the trick with EnSight geometry file reader?
>>> >>> >> Thanks.
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> 2016-03-03 17:51 GMT+03:00 Utkarsh Ayachit
>>> >>> >> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>:
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> > About test file. It's simple, IMHO. Generate any garbage file
>>> >>> >>> > or
>>> >>> >>> > take
>>> >>> >>> > any
>>> >>> >>> > existing big file. Rename it to have the geometry file name for
>>> >>> >>> > any
>>> >>> >>> > small
>>> >>> >>> > EnSight case. Feed this case to ParaView 5.0 under Windows x64
>>> >>> >>> > (I
>>> >>> >>> > use
>>> >>> >>> > Win7).
>>> >>> >>> > The parsing doesnt start so the file contents doesnt matter. It
>>> >>> >>> > only
>>> >>> >>> > wants
>>> >>> >>> > to open file and stops because of stat() error, even ifstream()
>>> >>> >>> > is
>>> >>> >>> > not
>>> >>> >>> > engaged.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Cool! Yea, that's a nitfy little test case :). I'll give it a
>>> >>> >>> try.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Utkarsh
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >>
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