VisIt 1.0.2 Release
Notes
Welcome to VisIt's release notes page. This page describes the important
enhancements and bug-fixes that were added to this release.
Features added in version 1.0.2
- A Java library interface to VisIt has been added. The library allows VisIt
to be launched and controlled from Java programs.
- Material interface reconstruction is faster.
- Material interface reconstruction now skips over materials that are not
used within a domain.
- A new window has been added to prompt for the number of processors when
launching VisIt's compute engine.
- The Erase operator is much faster.
- Slicing rectilinear meshes is much faster.
- The CLI has new methods for setting viewer caching and animation
properties.
- The Onion peel operator supports logical indices.
- The Lighting window now indicates which lights are active with icons.
Bugs fixed in version 1.0.2
- Running visit -debug 6 crashes.
- Pick does not correctly report the picked zone number.
- Subset plots of domains with material selection applied are sometimes
broken.
- Opening a new files causes plots to be recalculated when pipeline caching
is turned off.
- The number of subsets in the Subset plot window gets multiplied sometimes.
- Material interface reconstruction gets confused when ghost zones are
repeatedly communicated.
- Splashscreen processes do not exit when VisIt crashes.
- Sometimes the GUI crashes on exit.
- The camera light comes on when it is not wanted.
- Material selection is applied when it is not wanted.
- SIL restrictions are sometimes applied to plots with an incompatible SIL.
- Expressions do not work in the CLI.
- Subset plots of species have been removed.
- "Selected files" are always the ones in the current directory.
- The Lighting window's controls have no effect.
- The Subset plot's legend can get corrupted.
- Pick should report domain number when the database has multiple domains.
- Material interface reconstruction always tetrahedralizes clean cells.
- The Lighting window's direction text field should be enabled for Camera
lights.
- Disable setting the direction for Ambient lights.
- Rename Direction and Eye lights to something better.
- The Lighting window does not accept new directions when "Auto update" mode
is on.
Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version
of VisIt: VisIt 1.0.1 Release Notes.
Click the following link to view the release notes for the next version
of VisIt: VisIt 1.0.3 Release Notes.