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GethinWilliams: /* Calling ChomboVis from a Debugger */

2009-01-12T15:07:52Z

Calling ChomboVis from a Debugger

GethinWilliams: /* Calling ChomboVis from a Debugger */

2009-01-12T15:07:19Z

Calling ChomboVis from a Debugger

GethinWilliams: /* Calling ChomboVis from a Debugger */

2009-01-12T15:05:02Z

Calling ChomboVis from a Debugger

GethinWilliams at 15:01, 12 January 2009

2009-01-12T15:01:01Z

GethinWilliams: /* Introduction */

2009-01-12T15:00:36Z

Introduction

GethinWilliams: /* Building ChomboVis */

2009-01-12T14:59:15Z

Building ChomboVis

GethinWilliams: /* VTK (v4.4) */

2009-01-12T14:54:38Z

VTK (v4.4)

GethinWilliams: /* Prequisites */

2009-01-12T14:50:26Z

Prequisites

GethinWilliams: /* Introduction */

2009-01-12T14:37:43Z

Introduction

GethinWilliams: /* Prequisites */

2009-01-12T14:37:07Z

Prequisites

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 =Calling ChomboVis from a Debugger=
-Page 131 of the CHOMBO user manual, http://seesar.lbl.gov/ANAG/chombo, lists a number of commans you can issue when running CHOMBO in a debugger (gdb, ddd) (you will need to set the environment variable '''CHOMBOVIS_HOME''' appropriately):
+Page 131 of the CHOMBO user manual, http://seesar.lbl.gov/ANAG/chombo, lists a number of commands you can issue when running CHOMBO in a debugger (gdb, ddd) (you will need to set the environment variable '''CHOMBOVIS_HOME''' appropriately):
 <pre>
-One may use the writeFAB, writeFABname, writeLevel, and writeLevelname functions described in section 6.3 to write data in a FArrayBox or LevelData<FArrayBox> to a file, and then call ChomboVis from a shell to view the data.
+One may use the writeFAB, writeFABname, writeLevel, and writeLevelname functions described
-Alternatively, the viewFAB and viewLevel functions allow ChomboVis to be called directly from the gdb session.  To use these functions, the environment variable CHOMBOVIS HOME must be defined and set to the location of the ChomboVis installation directory tree; the chombovis executable must be located in $(CHOMBOVIS HOME)/bin.  Then, if one has an FArrayBox fab and
+Alternatively, the viewFAB and viewLevel functions allow ChomboVis to be called directly from
 a LevelData<FArrayBox> ldf, one may do the following:
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 <gdb prompt> call viewLevel(&ldf)
-which will result in fab and ldf being written to separate temporary files, and then two chombovis processes being started, one for fab, and one for ldf.
+which will result in fab and ldf being written to separate temporary files, and then two
 </pre>

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 <pre>
-One may use the writeFAB, writeFABname, writeLevel, and writeLevelname func-
+One may use the writeFAB, writeFABname, writeLevel, and writeLevelname functions described in section 6.3 to write data in a FArrayBox or LevelData<FArrayBox> to a file, and then call ChomboVis from a shell to view the data.
-tions described in section 6.3 to write data in a FArrayBox or LevelData<FArrayBox> to
-a ¯le, and then call ChomboVis from a shell to view the data. Alternatively, the viewFAB
+Alternatively, the viewFAB and viewLevel functions allow ChomboVis to be called directly from the gdb session.  To use these functions, the environment variable CHOMBOVIS HOME must be defined and set to the location of the ChomboVis installation directory tree; the chombovis executable must be located in $(CHOMBOVIS HOME)/bin.  Then, if one has an FArrayBox fab and
 a LevelData<FArrayBox> ldf, one may do the following:
 <gdb prompt> call viewFAB(&fab)
 <gdb prompt> call viewLevel(&ldf)
-which will result in fab and ldf being written to separate temporary ¯les, and then two
-chombovis processes being started, one for fab, and one for ldf.
+which will result in fab and ldf being written to separate temporary files, and then two chombovis processes being started, one for fab, and one for ldf.
 </pre>

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	=Calling ChomboVis from a Debugger=		=Calling ChomboVis from a Debugger=
		+
		+	Page 131 of the CHOMBO user manual, http://seesar.lbl.gov/ANAG/chombo, lists a number of commans you can issue when running CHOMBO in a debugger (gdb, ddd) (you will need to set the environment variable '''CHOMBOVIS_HOME''' appropriately):
		+
		+	<pre>
		+	One may use the writeFAB, writeFABname, writeLevel, and writeLevelname func-
		+	tions described in section 6.3 to write data in a FArrayBox or LevelData<FArrayBox> to
		+	a ¯le, and then call ChomboVis from a shell to view the data. Alternatively, the viewFAB
		+	and viewLevel functions allow ChomboVis to be called directly from the gdb session.
		+	To use these functions, the environment variable CHOMBOVIS HOME must be de¯ned and
		+	set to the location of the ChomboVis installation directory tree; the chombovis executable
		+	must be located in $(CHOMBOVIS HOME)/bin. Then, if one has an FArrayBox fab and
		+	a LevelData<FArrayBox> ldf, one may do the following:
		+	<gdb prompt> call viewFAB(&fab)
		+	<gdb prompt> call viewLevel(&ldf)
		+	which will result in fab and ldf being written to separate temporary ¯les, and then two
		+	chombovis processes being started, one for fab, and one for ldf.
		+	</pre>

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 '''ChomboVis''' is a visualisation package from the makers of CHOMBO.  It is no longer supported and [[VisIt]] is now the visulaisation tool of choice.  However, ChomboVis may still be useful for debugging purposes and so the notes below describe how to build and run this package.
-In addition to these notes, you may like to look at [http://seesar.lbl.gov/anag/chombo/chomboVis/UsersGuide.html]
+In addition to these notes, you may like to look at http://seesar.lbl.gov/anag/chombo/chomboVis/UsersGuide.html.
 =Prequisites=
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 </pre>
-to quickly achieve this, but you can also get the package from '''http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmw'''.
+to quickly achieve this, but you can also get the package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmw.
 ==HDF5 (v1.6.5)==

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	'''ChomboVis''' is a visualisation package from the makers of CHOMBO. It is no longer supported and [[VisIt]] is now the visulaisation tool of choice. However, ChomboVis may still be useful for debugging purposes and so the notes below describe how to build and run this package.		'''ChomboVis''' is a visualisation package from the makers of CHOMBO. It is no longer supported and [[VisIt]] is now the visulaisation tool of choice. However, ChomboVis may still be useful for debugging purposes and so the notes below describe how to build and run this package.
		+
		+	In addition to these notes, you may like to look at [http://seesar.lbl.gov/anag/chombo/chomboVis/UsersGuide.html]

	=Prequisites=		=Prequisites=

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 </pre>
-=Building ChomboVis=
+=Building ChomboVis (v4.16.11)=
 =Calling ChomboVis from a Debugger=

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 tar -xzf vtk4.4-src.tar.gz
 cd vtk4.4-src/VTK
 </pre>

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 =Prequisites=
-'''ChomboVis''' relies upon a number of other packages, so you will need to install these first:
+'''ChomboVis''' relies upon a number of other packages, so you will need to install these before building ChomboVis.  However, the default build for ChomboVis assumes that they are built inside it's own build directory, so you will need to unpack the ChmboVis tar file first.  On dartagnan I untarred it in '''/opt/chombovis'''.  You can copy the tar file, '''ChomboVis-4.16.11.tar.gz''' from that directory.
 ==Python Megawidgets==
-See:
+Needs to be unpacked so that it is a generally available package for Python.  On dartagnan (CentOS), I used:
 <pre>
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmw
+tar -xzf hdf5-1.6.5.tar.gz
 </pre>
-Needs to be unpacked so that it is a generally available package for Python.  On dartagnan (CentOS), I used:
+==Python (v2.3.3)==
 <pre>
-yum install python-pmw
+tar -xzf Python-2.3.3.tar.gz
 </pre>
-to quickly achieve this.
+==VTK (v4.4)==
-==HDF5==
+You can copy '''/opt/chombovis/ChomboVis-4.16.9-and-everything/vtk4.4-src.tar.gz'''.  The build is different, however, and also a bit buggy.
-I used v1.6.5 in conjuction
+Unpack normally:
 =Building ChomboVis=
 =Calling ChomboVis from a Debugger=

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 =Introduction=
-'''homboVis''' is a visualisation package from the makers of CHOMBO.  It is no longer supported and [[VisIt]] is now the visulaisation tool of choice.  However, ChomboVis may still be useful for debugging purposes and so the notes below describe how to build and run this package.
+'''ChomboVis''' is a visualisation package from the makers of CHOMBO.  It is no longer supported and [[VisIt]] is now the visulaisation tool of choice.  However, ChomboVis may still be useful for debugging purposes and so the notes below describe how to build and run this package.
 =Prequisites=