VisIt 1.0.1 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 1.0.1

- Interactive tools go away when they no longer apply.
- Alias Wavefront OBJ file writer now writes out a single file per time step. It also performs correctly in parallel.
- Plots with errors do not automatically redraw. The "Draw" button must be clicked to force them redraw.
- When a compute engine is interrupted, it stops generating the plots in the plot list instead of moving on to the next unrealized plot.
- Help chapter pages now have links to sub-pages.
- Certain functions in the VisIt Python Interface now have return values.
- VisIt now provides a setting in the File Selection Window that allows you to start in the current directory.
- Data files can be reloaded so VisIt picks up any changes that were made to a file since it was opened.
- Plots with errors can now be hidden in the plot list.

Bugs fixed in version 1.0.1

- Parallel VisIt hangs on sliced mesh after normal mesh plot.
- Deleting curve plots that are tied to an interactive Lineout operator crashes the viewer.
- VisIt's viewer crashes on riptide when a window s deleted.
- Transforming a vector plot crashes the compute engine.
- Window 1 must exist for animation to work.
- After stepping through an animation, random time-steps are displayed.
- Some beam data files cause empty output and plot errors.
- Transparent plots don't go away when you are in navigate bbox mode.
- "Apply to all operators" toggle doesn't affect subset selection.
- Strange mesh line disappearing behavior on sub-meshes.
- The viewer is telling the GUI that a plot is finished when it is not.
- The up axis text field in the Arbitrary slice window should not be enabled unless the slice is projected to 2d.
- Animation goes nuts when the last plot is deleted.
- The Lineout operator matches the Curve plot using the name and version of the plug-in.
- VisIt now reports a better error message when an invalid filename is specified.
- Pick should not report z-coordinate when picking a 2D database.
- The vis window's zoom mode makes reference lines disappear.
- Pick throws out "default" variable if the user adds another variable to the Pick Window's picked variable list.
- The Pick Window incorrectly reports a domain of -1 for single-domain databases.
- Ghost zones are not removed properly for a file with two meshes.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version of VisIt: VisIt 1.0 Release Notes.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the next version of VisIt: VisIt 1.0.2 Release Notes.