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0008558ParaView(No Category)public2009-02-18 20:352009-05-13 13:46
ReporterAlan Scott 
Assigned ToKen Moreland 
PrioritylowSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionfixed 
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Target Version3.6Fixed in Version 
Summary0008558: (Venus - Low ) Calculator formula error is confusing.
DescriptionWe need a better error message to the Output Message window when a user has an error in the formula entry of the calculator. For instance, sources/sphere, then calculator, put nothing in the formula, apply. It is nonsense to a user.
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(0015697)
Ken Moreland (manager)
2009-03-16 12:18

Reporting errors on parsed strings is a funny thing. The user will always have to have a basic knowledge of how the computer is interpreting things to fully understand what went wrong. In essence, the current errors do give fairly specific information of the problem. However, they are lacking a key piece of information: which parameter caused the problem. I added a warning statement to vtkArrayCalculator to inform the user that it was the equation that they typed in that caused the problems and that the previous errors indicate the details on the problem. That should give users enough context to fix the problem.

Commit to directory "ParaView3/VTK/Graphics" lies in external project VTK
/cvsroot/ParaView3/ParaView3/VTK/Graphics/vtkArrayCalculator.cxx,v <-- vtkArrayCalculator.cxx
new revision: 1.44; previous revision: 1.43
(0015721)
Alan Scott (manager)
2009-03-17 20:09

I agree with ken.
tested local server.

 Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2009-02-18 20:35 Alan Scott New Issue
2009-02-26 18:16 Alan Scott Summary Calculator formula error is confusing. => (Venus - Low ) Calculator formula error is confusing.
2009-03-02 20:20 Alan Scott Priority normal => low
2009-03-02 20:51 Alan Scott Category 3.8 => 3.6
2009-03-16 12:13 Ken Moreland Status backlog => tabled
2009-03-16 12:13 Ken Moreland Assigned To => Ken Moreland
2009-03-16 12:18 Ken Moreland Note Added: 0015697
2009-03-16 12:18 Ken Moreland Status tabled => @80@
2009-03-16 12:18 Ken Moreland Resolution open => fixed
2009-03-17 20:09 Alan Scott Note Added: 0015721
2009-03-17 20:09 Alan Scott Status @80@ => closed
2009-05-13 13:46 Utkarsh Ayachit Target Version => 3.6
2011-06-16 13:10 Zack Galbreath Category => (No Category)


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