[vtkusers] vtkChemistry/element.xml in VTK 6.0.0

Marcus D. Hanwell marcus.hanwell at kitware.com
Fri Jan 10 13:19:14 EST 2014


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Teng-Yok Lee <recheliu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using VTK6.0.0 to create visualization for PDB files used for Chemistry
> applications. I found out that after I removed the folder of VTK source
> codes, it shows an error as follows:
>
> vtkBlueObeliskDataParser (0x2a31090): Cannot find elements.xml. Checked
> /usr/local/vtk//vtkChemistry/vtkBODRData and
> /ext/src/VTK6.0.0/Domains/Chemistry
>
> (/usr/local/vtk is my installation path of VTK and /ext/src/VTK6.0.0 is
> where I put the VTK source code).
>
> However, the images can still be generated, so this error message is more
> like a warning. After I manually copied the file VTK6.0.0/Domains/Chemistry/
> element.xml to /usr/local/vtk//vtkChemistry/vtkBODRData, the warnings were
> gone.
>
> I am curious: Should VTK 6.0 install the file element.xml to the location
> <CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX>/
> vtkChemistry/vtkBODRData? Is there any options to enabled for the auto
> installation? Or it is not supported yet? Thanks!
>
Thanks for reporting this, a fix was committed and should be in VTK
6.1. The path referenced was also incorrect, but that is also fixed in
master.

Marcus


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