[Paraview] Bug: Failure to open FLASH file on a PowerBook

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Klaus,

I've tracked this issue down. It was indeed due to byte ordering. The
version number was being read incorrectly.  Attached is a patch for
the fix. It have been committed to git master. I'll ensure that it
gets into the 3.8.1 release as well.

Utkarsh

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> Klaus,
>
> Can you send us the data again please? Dave is away and not sure when
> I'd be able to get in touch with him.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Klaus Weide <klaus at flash.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just installed ParaView 3.8.0 on a PowerBook G4 (Mac OS X 10.4.11).
>>
>> On opening a FLASH file, I get the output message:
>>
>> Generic Warning: In
>> /Users/partyd/Dashboards/MyTests/ParaView-3-8-0/ParaView/Servers/Filters/vtkFlashReader.cxx,
>> line 764
>> Inconsistency in the number of blocks.
>>
>> After that, the Object Inspector shows no useful information about the
>> file (other than Filename and Path).
>>
>> I gave Dave DeMarle a copy of the same file, he was able to successfully
>> open it on his laptop.  He thinks the problem is caused by the different
>> byte ordering on PowerPC.  This should be easy to fix since the underlying
>> file format of the FLASH format is HDF5.
>>
>> Klaus
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