[Gmsh] VTK Format Reader
Dominique Belhachemi
domibel at cs.tu-berlin.de
Thu Sep 25 23:12:57 CEST 2008
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 21:17 +0200, Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
> Dominique Belhachemi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The FileOpenDialog offers to read a "VTK mesh (*.vtk)" into Gmsh.
> > I've tried it with different files without success. All I get is a
> > syntax error.
> >
> > I took a quick look at the code. Geo/GModelIO_Mesh.cpp offers a readVTK
> > function.
> >
> > int GModel::readVTK(const std::string &name)
> > {
> > Msg::Error("VTK reader is not implemented yet");
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > But this function is never called. Is it possible to add a call to the
> > function "int MergeFile(...)" in Common/OpenFile.cpp ?
>
> Sure, but someone needs to implement the reader first :-)
>
Not really. The crux of the matter is that the user doesnt see the error
message:
Msg::Error("VTK reader is not implemented yet");
Current implementation handles .vtk files like .geo files. This results
in a syntax error without notifying the user.
Cheers
Dominique