[vtkusers] VTK 7.0 vtkXMLPolyDataWriter output version issues

[Paul Korir]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your reply. I'm not referring to VTK Ids.

I'm specifically referring to the paragraph that says:

"Binary Blob Header: In front of every binary blob, base64 or 
raw-binary, appended or not, there is an UInt32 length indicator. If you 
do not have this length indicator, you might get error messages like

Cannot read cell offsets from XXXX in piece 0 because the "offsets" 
array is not long enough.

Note that if you are encoding in base64, that length header must be 
encoded separately, so that the end result looks like XXXXXX==XXXX... 
(note the two equals signs indicating the early end of the length header 
block)."

How do I get that to appear on the data array? It seems like Paraview 
does something internally that VTK programmers should be aware of.

Regards,

Paul



On 10/02/2017 13:52, Dan Lipsa wrote:
> Paul,
> Looking closer that the blog it seems that a file with ghosts will 
> have version 2.0. The difference between 1.0 and 0.1 is caused 
> by VTK_USE_64BIT_IDS. Can you check that in your VTK's CMakeList.txt. 
> It seems that your VTK uses 32 bits while ParaView would use 64.
> So that would explain the difference. Do you need/want to use 32 bits 
> for VTK? Can you recompile your VTK with 64 bit ids and retry.
>
> Dan

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