H5Part development and discussion

[Kurt Stockinger <kstockinger AT lbl.gov>]

Achim Gsell wrote:
> On Monday 11 June 2007 21:20, Kurt Stockinger wrote:
>
>   
>> Last Friday evening I sent the following email but it didn't get through 
>>     
> since the attachment where too large. I resent the email with pointers to 
> the 
> figures.
>
> Postings to the list are limited to 40kb ...
>
>   
>> An important next step would be to get some documentation for H5Block.
>> For instance, from the current data set I could not retrieve the mesh
>> spacing so for the visualization I currently assume a mesh spacing of 1
>> in each direction.
>>
>> It seems that the H5Block API distinguishes between mesh spacing and
>> field spacing. For the provided data set "H5Block3dGetFieldSpacing"
>> seems undefined. I also noticed that we currently only have
>> H5BlockSetMeshSpacing but no function called H5BlockGetMeshSpacing.
>>     
>
> There is still some obsolete declarations in H5Block.h remaining from 
> Andreas 
> proposal for the H5Block API. The declaration of "H5BlockGetMeshSpacing" is 
> one. Sorry for the confusion. I will clean it up today.
>
>   
>> How can I currently retrieve the mesh spacing information from the data 
>> set?
>>     
>
> Andreas should use "H5Block3dSetFieldSpacing()" and 
> you "H5Block3dGetFieldSpacing()".
>   
Thanks. I tried to use H5Block3dGetFieldSpacing() but this method looks
for an attribute called "Spacing" which is not in the data set provided
by Andreas - there the attribute is called "mesh sizes". I'll check out
the new code and see what I can do.

Thanks for the updates!
Kurt
> Achim
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