I would vote yes on that. Although localization like this is good in a UI, it seems to be a pointless complicate to a data file in which people generally don't look at the contents.
-Ken On 2/4/09 3:48 PM, "Berk Geveci" <[email protected]> wrote: Hmmm. Weird. We are using strtod to make the conversion from string to double. That must somehow obey localization settings. Looking at here http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man3/strtod.3.asp I see that we need to somehow set the localization properly for the right radix. Should we always set it to . ? -berk On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Christian Wellmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. As I now figured out, the problem with my real timestep values > seems to be the decimal separator. Strangely my ParaView 3.4 > installation seems to require a comma as decimal separator. So > > <DataSet timestep="0,5e-5" group="0" part="0" > file="hour_5121_fall_se0000000.vtp"/> > > is interpreted correctly and gives the time value 0.5e-5. > The idea of using a comma as decimal separator came into my mind > using the "Annotate Time" filter, which shows comma separated values > in my installation. > > > 2009/1/29 Christian Wellmann <[email protected]>: >> Thanks Stephen and John for your quick answers. >> Unfortunately any changes to the group and/or part tag not seem to >> solve the problem. >> What is strange is that, although ParaView seems to read an int value, >> it is able >> to handle >> >> <DataSet timestep="-922337203685477580825263735124730" group="" >> part="0" file="sp_test0000000.vtp"/> >> <DataSet timestep=" 922337203685477580825263735124730" group="" >> part="0" file="sp_test0002498.vtp"/> >> >> correctly, what gives me >> >> Index Value >> 0 -9.22337e+32 >> 1 9.22337e+32 >> >> in the time table although the values are out of range of any standard >> integer representation I guess. >> However, as a workaround -considering the large range of representable >> integer values- I will simpliy >> change my scale to micro- or even nano-seconds to get integer time values. >> >> >> 2009/1/29 John Biddiscombe <[email protected]>: >>> Christian >>> >>> <?xml version="1.0"?> >>> <VTKFile type="Collection" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian"> >>> <Collection> >>> <DataSet timestep="1.08267" file="1800_001-static-00000.vtmb"/> >>> <DataSet timestep="1.08367" file="1800_001-static-00001.vtmb"/> >>> <DataSet timestep="1.08467" file="1800_001-static-00002.vtmb"/> >>> ... >>> <DataSet timestep="1.34967" file="1800_001-static-00267.vtmb"/> >>> </Collection> >>> </VTKFile> >>> >>> This works for me. Can't comment on why you are having trouble, but maybe >>> try to remove the group, part unused tags. >>> >>> I use CVS paraview (3.4 should work) >>> >>> JB >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> I'm using ParaView 3.4 to load the results of a transient simulation >>>> via a pvd file and a set >>>> of vtp XML PolyData files. Each vtp file corresponds to a particular real >>>> time >>>> value which are not evenly spaced. I tried to provide the real time >>>> values via the timestep key >>>> in the pvd file: >>>> >>>> <?xml version="1.0"?> >>>> <VTKFile type="Collection" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian"> >>>> <Collection> >>>> <DataSet timestep="1.23" group="" part="0" file="sp_test0000000.vtp"/> >>>> <DataSet timestep="2.34" group="" part="0" file="sp_test0002498.vtp"/> >>>> <DataSet timestep="3.15" group="" part="0" file="sp_test0004496.vtp"/> >>>> </Collection> >>>> </VTKFile> >>>> >>>> It seems that ParaView expects integer values for the timestep key, >>>> because >>>> it loads the files like expected but the time table in the Object >>>> Inspector -> Information >>>> tab shows for the above pvd file: >>>> Index Value >>>> 0 1 >>>> 1 2 >>>> 2 3 >>>> >>>> I would be grateful for any help/suggestions. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Christian Wellmann >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> ParaView mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> John Biddiscombe, email:biddisco @ cscs.ch >>> http://www.cscs.ch/ >>> CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.07 >>> Via Cantonale, 6928 Manno, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) 610.82.82 >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Christian Wellmann > Institute of Continuum Mechanics > Leibniz Universitaet Hannover > Appelstr. 11 > 30167 Hannover, Germany > phone: +49 511 762 2285 > fax: +49 511 762 5496 > email: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > ParaView mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list [email protected] http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview **** Kenneth Moreland *** Sandia National Laboratories *********** *** *** *** email: [email protected] ** *** ** phone: (505) 844-8919 *** web: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~kmorel
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