Support for viewers

[Christophe Picard]

Thank you  for your answer.
I will write it by including SILO header files directly into my code instead 
of using PETSC viewers. I am dealing with structured meshes, so it shouldn't 
be to hard.

Christophe

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 01:15 pm, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> I wrote the SILO viewer long ago when I had an experimental mesh
> format, but I stopped supporting it. We could try and help you get
> it coded yourself, but since it depends on a mesh and we are really
> busy, it is unlikely it will get done by us anytime soon.
>
>    Matt
>
> On 6/6/06, Christophe Picard <picard2 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am new to PETSC. I am writting a 3D code based on PETSC, and I
> > would like to output the data to SILO format to use with VISIT
> > (visualization
> > tool). How do I
> > compile my code to do that?
> > I have SILO installed in some custom directory. But I don't know how to
> > tell
> > PETSC where to find SILO.
> >
> > This is the error message I have now:
> > [0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown PetscViewer type given: silo!
> > [0]PETSC ERROR: VecView_MPI() line 778 in src/vec/vec/impls/mpi/pdvec.c
> > [0]PETSC ERROR: No support for this operation for this object type!
> > [0]PETSC ERROR: Viewer type (null) not supported for this object!
> > [0]PETSC ERROR: VecView() line 708 in src/vec/vec/interface/vector.c
> > [0]PETSC ERROR: VecView_MPI_DA() line 424 in src/dm/da/src/gr2.c
> > [0]PETSC ERROR: VecView() line 708 in src/vec/vec/interface/vector.c
> > [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscViewerSetType() line 91
> > insrc/sys/viewer/interface/viewreg .c
> >
> > Actually, the same question is valid for HDF and NETCDF formats.
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
> > Christophe