Drum roll please....... "Corrupt" set of paraview preferences. After installing 10.5.8 clean from my installation disks everything worked as it was supposed to. So that means the only difference is between the 2 user environments. Preferences is the first to check. Looked in my home directory, blew away the .config directory, launched paraview on the "trouble" machine and now everything works. I could completely replicate this issue simply by swapping in and out the "good" and "bad" preferences for ParaView. I have the "bad" preferences if anyone wants them to try and debug what was going on.

Thanks to EVERYONE who helped me with ideas.

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Mike Jackson                  [email protected]


On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Eric E. Monson wrote:

I just tried the 3.6.2 binary on a MacBook booted off an old 10.5.7 usb drive backup and all of the Color By entries showed up just fine. The MacBook has the GMA 950 on-board graphics chipset. The Mac Pro I used before has the NVidia GeForce 8800 GT card. If you can think of any other specs that might be crucial, just drop me a line.

-Eric

On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:

I just fire up the 3.6.2 binary from Kitware on OS X 10.5.8 on a MacBook Pro with nVidea 8600M graphics card and the information tab is identical to your image BUT my "Color By" drop down only shows "Solid Color", "Ids", "Normals", all of which are "Point Data" and NOT "Cell Data".

So not really sure what is up. If someone wants to remotely work on my machine email me off list and I'll get you setup.

Mike Jackson.

On 3/3/2010 12:06 PM, Eric E. Monson wrote:
I don't have a CVS build on OS X 10.5.8 any more, but I booted into it and ran the 3.6.2 binary and SphereSource->GenerateIds shows all four arrays in Color By and three in Information.

-Eric


On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Jérôme wrote:

By my side, yes: SphereSource -> GenerateIds. You are right: Information tab shows the celldata and pointdata array, whereas "Color by" has only point.

Jerome

2010/3/3 Utkarsh Ayachit <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected] >>

Mmm..not sure if that'd help, since you said you can reproduce the
  issue with GenerateIds filter as well, right?

  Utkarsh

  On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Michael Jackson
  <[email protected]
  <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Do you want my data file?

Mike J.

On 3/3/2010 9:28 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:

Mike, but the cell data shows up correctly on the information tab,
right? So the cell data is being loaded, and even reported to
ParaView. It's hard to imagine why it would be doing what it's
  doing,
esp. with the precompiled binaries on Mac, since they work
  fine for
me, on my Mac 10.6  :).

It cannot be a mere GUI issue since from the debugging report that
Mike gave us before, ParaView indeed doesn't report those cell
  arrays
to the client when rendering. I just wish I could reproduce it
  somehow
somewhere so I could debug it  :). I am going to test on Os X
  10.5 to
see if we have any better luck.

Utkarsh



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