Open Inventor - Fixed bugs

Open Inventor Fixed Bugs

Open Inventor 6.1

Patch 6.1.2: Bugs fixed as of July 19, 2007

(#767) Some NURBS were rendered incorrectly. [P2]
(#1272) The scene became transparent if a transformer manip was scaled when the Shift and Control keys were held down. [P2]
(#1273) [Linux/Solaris] Lasso processing continued drawing the lasso when the mouse button was released outside the viewer.[P2]

(#1468) Open Inventor couldn't find the requested font at startup. An Open Inventor error message was displayed:

   Inventor warning in SoFontServer::checkFontPath():
   Couldn't find requested font (Courier : Regular), using default
   font file (F:\MCS\OIV\600/data/fonts/Helvetica.pfa).

[P2]

(#1620) Using OIV 6.0.1, with OIVHOME undefined, no text appeared. [P2]
(#1694) Crash when loading VRML files defining node names having more than 256 characters. The crash only happened in Release mode. Now there is no limit to the length of node names. [P2]

(#1699) The Qt4 binaries built with InvQtBuilder for VC8 were invalid. The message was:

 Runtime error: R6034
   An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library 
   incorrectly.

[P2]

(#1735) QtLargeModelViewer could not execute when it was built with InvQtBuilder 6.0.3 for VC8 and Qt3.4. [P2]
(#1809) SceneViewer was unable to load DXF files. [P2]
(#1811) Crash when a fastEdit separator was referenced twice in the scene. [P2]
(#1818) SoSplitAction didn't remove the original node it had split. The split node should be removed after applying the split action when its ref counter = 1 before applying the action and setKeepOriginalGeometry = FALSE. [P2]
(#1826) SoNodes referenced DirectViz headers that are not part of the public distribution. Duplicate of #1853. [P2]
(#1831) With the SoWinComponent::helpFileName specified, a second browser displaying the Open Inventor help file appeared as well. [P2]
(#1832) The field SoWinComponent::helpContextString wasn't used by Open Inventor. [P2]
(#1841) Some compiler warning messages seen when using VC 8.0 have been eliminated.
(#1853) Duplicate of #1826. [P2]
(#1866) When SoFont::name was set to Arial, conversion to VRML should have produced SoVRMLFontStyle::family = SANS. [P2]
(#1885) FLEXnet licenses didn't work on OIV6.1 for Win64 when using a debug target. [P2]
(#1890) The IVF Wizard 6.1 for VC8 didn't create a new IVF project.
(#1892) The MFC method OnIdle was called too often in OIV 6.1. [P2]
(#1898) Fields didn't manage memory correctly when the data was set using setValuesPointer. [P2]
(#1904) Memory overflow wasn't handled properly during file loading. [P2]
(#1907) Render to Texture did not work correctly. [P2]
(#1910) Invalid offscreen output when applying SoOffscreenRenderer twice on on a scene graph including an indexed texture. [P2]
(#1915) Duplicate of 1910. [P2]
(#1920) After a call to SoWin::init, "WM_MDIGETACTIVE" messages were continuously sent to the MDIClient window, increasing the CPU load. (Same issue as #1892). [P2]
(#1921) The TRIANGLES transparency types crashed when applied on SoVertexShape, including transparent SoTriangleStripSet, SoFaceSet, and SoIndexedFaceSet. [P2]
(#1928) Some DXF files that could be read with Open Inventor 6.0.1 could not be read with 6.0.3 and higher. [P2]
(#1952) The IvDLLm provided in OIV 6 for VC8 was built incorrectly, which prevented FLEXnet licenses from working and could lead to program crashes.

Patch 6.1.1: Bugs fixed as of May 29, 2007

(#1631) Japanese strings were not displayed in the viewer decoration or menu. [P1]
(#1632) Japanese fonts couldn't be found. [P1]
(#1712) Crash in the example src\Inventor\examples\Features\ TextExtensions\TextProperties when setting renderStyle to TEXTURE and enabling StrokeFont, then Annotation 1 or Annotation 2 renderType. [P1]
(#1716) SoGetBoundingBox action didn't include the first blank line when computing the bounding box for text. [P1]
(#1776) SORTED_LAYERS transparency types displayed opaque shapes when several transparent objects were displayed. Setting SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND via an SoTransparencyType node now sets transparency to SCREEN_DOOR. [P1]
(#1807) SbString::getValue now returns a valid string on Unicode text. [P1]
(#1810) SceneViewer didn't exit properly when it was closed before the IvTune window. [P1]
(#1825) SoDualSceneCollider reported non-existent collisions. [P1]
(#1850) The Mentor example HelloCone (and others) crashed when hardware acceleration was disabled. [P1]
(#1852) SoWglDescribePixelFormat crashed when hardware acceleration was disabled. [P1]
(#1858) SoGLVertexShader crashed when it tried to initialize OpenGL extensions when no OpenGL context had been created, for example, when there was no viewer. [P1]
(#1863) InvQt610Builder for VC8 failed to build InvQT dll and QtLargeModelViewer. The error shown in the log files was:
```
    cannot open file x64\Release3\InvQt610.DLL.intermediate.manifest
```
[P1]
(#1871) Kanji characters couldn't be displayed. [P1]
(#1876) Crash in SoGLExtension::checkExtension under certain circumstances. [P1]
(#1883) delete was called on arrays allocated with new[], which could lead to memory corruption. [P1]
(#1893) Open Inventor crashed using levels 0 and 1 of hardware acceleration on certain graphics cards. [P1]

6.1 Final release

(#1166) SoDB::finish now frees the dictionary and typeData tables.
(#1429) Method SoHandleEventAction::setPickRadius had no effect. The method SoHandleEventAction::getPickedPoint forced the pick aperture of SoRayPickAction to 5 pixels.
(#1430,#2045) [Enhancement] Method SoSelection::setRadius(float radiusInPixels) is now implemented.
(#1458) [Enhancement] [Windows] PDB files of DLLs in release mode are now provided in the Windows distribution.
(#1490) [Windows] The IVF AppWizard did not install properly nor work correctly with Visual Studio .NET 2003.
(#1501) [Windows] When installing OIV 6.0 for Visual Studio 2005, the customization of the IDE's directory lists (i.e., include and lib) failed. The error message was:
```
    Severe: The customization file is missing.
```
(#1562) [Enhancement] [Windows] InvQt6xxBuilder has been enhanced to use the highest version of the Open Invenftor library that it finds in the directory. Previously it would use the first one (alphabetical order).
(#1594) The .pro files weren't provided with the QT4 examples.
(#1635) When the field SoTexture3::minFilter was set, the OpenGL resource GL_MAG_FILTER was set.
(#1662) Unknown information nodes with a declared field couldn't be read in Open Inventor 6. For example, the node:
```
    DEF FileInfo CustomNode {
    fields [SFName name, SFFloat width,SFFloat depth,SFFloat height]
    name "Table"
    width 2.00
    depth 0.90
    height 0.863
    }
```
could be loaded/saved in Open Inventor 5 but not with Open Inventor 6.
(#1695) SoNodeSensor callback returned the root node of the modified VRML nodes. It should have returned the modified node itself as done for Open Inventor nodes.

(#1702) [Windows] IvTune Shift-F12 failed for VS 2005 debug builds. The error dialog:

    "This application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dll 
    was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

(#1706) Memory leak when modifying the field SoTexture2::image. It could be seen when the field was modified in an SoOneShotSensor callback. This problem did not occur if only one texture (and always the same) was modified in the callback.
(#1711) RGB files referenced in SoTexture2 nodes weren't closed.
(#1720) [UNIX, Linux] Double buffering was disabled when redrawing the scene on window events. This was seen on Linux RHEL3 (Opteron) and on Solaris 8 (suntotal2) when the viewer received resize or expose events.
(#1726) Crash using SoQt::finish. The crash happened in SoQtSensorHandler::setUpPendingTimers but *only* in debug mode.
(#1728) [Enhancement] Open Inventor stopped searching for a valid password if the file $OIVHOME/license/password.dat existed and no valid password was found. Now it continues searching in other license files that it can find.
(#1729) [Linux] SORTED_LAYERS transparency types displayed opaque shapes.
(#1737) SoDB::readAll returned NULL when loading DXF files. This was broken in Open Inventor 6.0.3.
(#1738) removeChild didn't remove an SoSelection node when objects had been selected.
(#1745) Crash when calling SoSelection::getPath(0) if no object had been mouse-selected.
(#1752) [UNIX, Linux] Auto clipping was re-enabled when stereo display was ON. This issue happened with SoXt but not with SoWin.
(#1754) SoText2 with renderStyle TEXTURE ignored material changes.
(#1755) Stroke font text that was dragged and dropped several times sometimes disappeared.
(#1757) Text with renderStyle TEXTURE were displayed opaque when transparencyType wasn't SCREEN_DOOR, except when transparency type was Sorted Triangles or Sorted Object Triangles, in which case the text wasn't displayed at all.

Triangle transparencies cannot be supported by textured text. Therefore the documentation has been updated and the textured text is forced to be rendered using:
- BLEND transparency when using SORTED_TRIANGLES_XXX_BLEND
  and
- ADD transparency when using SORTED_TRIANGLES_XXX_ADD.
(#1762) minFilter and magFilter fields of SoIndexedTexture2 had no effect on the displayed textured shapes. The values were not being sent to OpenGL.
(#1766) Nodes outside SoLocateHighlight were redrawn when the mouse is when the cursor was over the contents of the locate highlight. Only the "selected" node should have been redrawn. This problem didn't occur if the nodes outside the locate highlight were opaque.
(#1774) When SORTED_OBJECT_TRIANGLES_BLEND transparency was enabled, all objects were rendered with the material of the first transparent object.
(#1777) [UNIX, Linux] IvTune/SoIvTune.h header file was not supplied with Linux/Unix SDK.
(#1787) SoWindef.h redefined "system" items like Display or GC.
(#1788) Calling SoXt::init after calling SoXt::finish caused a crash in SbNameEntry::insert.
(#1792) [Linux] RGB files generated on Linux were invalid.

Open Inventor 6.0

Patch 6.0.3: Bugs fixed as of November 27, 2006

(#1244) SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND transparency displayed far opaque shapes in front of near transparent objects. [P3]
(#1246) Dragger selection behaved abnormally when stereo was enabled. [P3]
(#1391) Under some circumstances, an SoIndexedTriangleStripSet surface disappeared unexpectedly when under an SoOctreeOrdering node. [P3]
(#1394) At certain angles an SoIndexedLineSet under an SoOctreeOrdering node disappeared from the display. [P3]
(#1429) Method SoHandleEventAction::setPickRadius had no effect because the pick radius was always forced to 5 pixels. [P3]
(#1453) SoOffscreenRenderer::writeToJPEG(NULL) saved an invalid JPEG image in memory. [P3]
(#1519) After using the mouse wheel to move an object, you had to click twice on the viewer buttons or thumbwheels to use them. [P3]
(#1541) Various DLLs for the Open Inventor 6.0 VC8.0 build had incorrect or missing version info in their Properties dialog. [P3]
(#1550) SoTextureCubeMap didn't support HDRI texture files. No texture was loaded when the field SoTextureCubeMap::filenames was set to an HDRI file. [P3]
(#1559) JPEG amd BMP offscreen output of polygonal Text3 failed. The text did not appear in the output. (Same as #1576) [P3]
(#1564) SoQtSpaceball was broken using Open Inventor 6.0 and 6.0.1 on Linux. The symptom was a dialog stating that "No driver is running. Exit." [P3]
(#1566) When the field SoFile::name was modified, the SoDataSensor::getTriggerField method returned NULL. [P3]
(#1569) The Ladmin tool for Open Inventor 6.0 for Win64 put the license string in the wrong place in the system registry. [P3]
(#1571) The Ladmin tool for Win64 did not return the correct computer ID. It returned the actual MAC address, whereas on Win64, the digits must be switched around. [P3]
(#1573) After using the mouse scroll wheel, clicking on the application toolbar generated numerous errors (and crash). [P3]
(#1574) Same as 1573. [P3]
(#1575) Open Inventor didn't release the MouseEvent if the mouse wheel had been used. (Same as ebug #1254). [P3]
(#1576) Offscreen rendering of text did not work. No text output appeared in the output .bmp file, only the non-text geometry. (Same as #1559) [P3]
(#1577) Stroke fonts didn't work correctly with the GDIPrintPreview example. The characters were rendered extremely small. [P3]
(#1578) The SoText3 display lists were not valid when changing context, creating artifacts during offscreen rendering. [P3]
(#1580) SoVRMLArc2D did not change appearance when fields were changed. For example, if the application changed the radius field, the arc should have changed appearance (be drawn with the new radius value). SoVRMLArcClose2D, SoVRMLCircle2D, and SoVRMLDisk2D all had the same bug. [P3]
(#1584) The text of GLSL compile error messages was not printed. When compilation of a GLSL shader fails and OIV_GLSL_DEBUG is set, Open Inventor should print the text of the error message from OpenGL. Now it does. [P3]
(#1589) The selection cursor wasn't displayed in SoQtWalkViewer, SoQtPlaneViewer, or SoQtFlyViewer. The error in the DOS console was:

QCursor::update: Invalid cursor shape 25
(#1610) An SoCubeMap node specifying an HDRI file and exported by the writeAction could not be reloaded (crashed).
(#1611) Method SoFieldContainer::set crashed when the input parameter was large. [P3]
(#1634) 3D textures weren't displayed when SoComplexity::textureQuality > 0.6. [P3]
(#1636) 3D textures weren't displayed when the X and Y texture dimensions were 1024. [P3]
(#1638) SoFragmentShader and SoVertexShader now display filename in error message. Previously if the specified shader program file was not found, Open Inventor displayed this message:

Inventor error in SoShaderObject::readSource()()
Unable to read source program
[P3]
(#1639) Same as #1638.
(#1640) Texture image "file not found" message now includes the filename. Previously if Open Inventor was unable to open the specified shader program source file, the error message said:

SoRasterReaderSet::getReader
Can not open file !
[P3]
(#1645) SoImageBackground didn't restore the OpenGL state. glPixelStorei (GL_UNPACK_ALIGNMENT, ...) GL_CLIENT_PIXEL_STORE_BIT was missing from the push attrib call. [P3]
(#1648) A volume geometry node surface flickered one/two times when used with LOD node. This only happened when LOD was linked to "Frame per second" mode. [P3]
(#1652) Stroke font glyphs were positioned incorrectly and/or missing when using a release build (on Windows). [P3]
(#1655) When fastEditing and Reverse Left/Right views were enabled, the raw stereo was only displayed in 1 view. [P3]
(#1659) In QtLargeModelViewer 6.x changing the type of viewer from Examiner to Plane/Walk/Fly viewer caused a crash. Fixed in SoStereoDialog and SoQtFullViewer. [P3]
(#1660) [Linux] Changing the type of viewer from Plane/Walk/Fly to Examiner viewer didn't work. No redraw was issued. [P3]
(#1663) Geometry was drawn transparent when DELAYED_ADD was set, even though no geometry had any transparency. This problem was introduced in Open Inventor 6.0.1. [P3]
(#1664) Marker set animated rendering in Qt viewers was jerky. [P3]
(#1679) SoDB::readAll didn't automatically recognize DXF files. [P3]
(#1684) The NodeSensor callback wasn't always triggered when SoVRMLTimeSensor fields were modified. [P3]
(#1685) The search policy of SoDynamicLibManager was invalid when using the environment variable OIVHOME. [P3]
(#1689) SoTexture3 crashed when the field filenames was empty or only specified one file. [P3]

Patch 6.0.1: Bugs fixed as of July 12, 2006

(#708) When displaying text using renderStyle TEXTURE, sometimes the character edges appeared jagged. [P1]
(#1080) Many macro redefinitions were listed as warnings during compilation when SoDialogVizAll.h was called before SoQtExaminerViewer.h. [P1]
(#1154) Text drawn with renderStyle TEXTURE didn't support French or German font names. [P1]
(#1183) PROTOs didn't write out correctly for certain PROTOs. If the PROTO definition's field definition contained a node and therefore had a { }, the buffer containing the PROTO definition (for later writing out) wasn't correct. [P1]
(#1213) The materialBinding was ignored on SoCube when at least 1 face was transparent and SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND or SORTED_TRIANGLES_BLEND or SORTED_OBJECT_TRIANGLES_BLEND was enbabled. [Fixed in Open Inventor 6.0 final]
(#1278) [Enhancement] A method SoFont::isSupported(char* font_name) was added to filter the fonts supported by Open Inventor. [P1]
(#1292) Incorrect display of accentuated text (e.g., "T�xt") during manipulation with an SoTransformManip. [Fixed in Open Inventor 6.0 final]
(#1305) SoSplitGeometryAction changed the appearance of the split object when normals weren't provided in the scene graph. In the case where normals were computed by Open Inventor, the computed normals of the initial shape should have been stored in the split shapes. [P1]
(#1328) Configuration parameter OIV_FONT_RENDERSTYLE didn't support the text values POLYGON, TEXTURE, and POLYGON_AND_OUTLINE. It only supported values 0, 1 and 2. Now it supports the text values as well. [P1]
(#1422) Text crashed when OIV_PSFONT_PATH was too long on Solaris. [P1]
(#1452) QtLargeModelViewer showed a flickering display when tooltips or toolbar menus were mapped. This was related to Qt 3.3.6. [P1]
(#1469) If the scene contained SoText2 and "auto clip planes" was enabled, the viewer contents sometimes flashed/flickered when zooming in. This was due to an intermittently invalid bounding box. [P1]
(#1471) When a window was closed and then reopened, its resources were not reloaded properly. Causing, for example, the following error:

SoWinBitmapButton (dialog banner)
Could not get bitmap from resource module.

[P1]
(#1472) A program consisting entirely of SoDB::init() and SoDB::finish() crashed due to a null pointer. [P1]
(#1477) When SCREENDOOR transparency was enabled, all opaque shapes added after the selected shape beceme transparent during navigation. The selection was made through an SoLocateHighlight node. The issue didn't happen with SORTED_OBJECT_BLEND transparency. [P1]
(#1478) SoLocateHighlight didn't properly restore the color of opaque shapes encapsulated in transparent objects. The issue happened in SORTED_OBJECT_BLEND transparency type. [P1]
(#1479) SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND failed to render an opaque cube inside a transparent cube. The external cube was rendered as an opaque shape. [P1]
(#1481) When the requested or default fonts weren't found, non-text shapes weren't rendered either. The following message was displayed:

Inventor error in SoFontBase::SoFontBase():
Error while creating Freetype Face object.

[P1]
(#1482) QtHelloCone and QtReadFile for Qt4 crashed in debug mode. [P1]
(#1487) Draggers/manipulators were affected by shader nodes (but should not have been). [P1]
(#1492) Opaque text strings became transparent during navigation with SCREEN_DOOR transparency type and renderCaching set to ON. It didn't happen if renderCaching was disabled or set to AUTO. [P1]
(#1500) Same as #1532. [P1]
(#1504) Large texture couldn't be displayed when using certain graphics cards (e.g., NVidia Quadro FX 3400/4400 and NVS 285). The problem occurred with images larger than the graphics board capabilities. [P1]
(#1508) Same as #1532 [P1]
(#1524) Textured non-left-aligned text strings weren't displayed at the correct position. The bounding box of textured text (i.e., text drawn with renderStyle TEXTURE) was incorrect. [P1]
(#1531) When mouse events were continuously caught by the eventCallback, the Qt viewers never rendered the scene. [P1]
(#1532) deleteValues() on a multi-value field, e.g., SoMFInt32, destroyed the last value when the next-to-last value was deleted. For example, if you deleted item 1 from the coordIndex field of an SoIndexedPointSet, deleteValues() trashed the value of item 0. [P1]
(#1536) SoPackedColor without value was displayed semi-transparent. It should be displayed opaque (default documented value is 0xccccccff). [P1]
(#1537) Stroke fonts didn't display in Open Inventor 6.0. No error message was displayed. [P1]
(#1538) Applying SoGetPrimitiveCountAction to a scene graph that contained a stroke font crashed the program. [P1]
(#1560) [Windows] It was not possible with Open Inventor 6.0 to link an application with the compiler setting "treat wchar_t as a built-in type". This fix may be of relevance to applications using Unicode strings. [P1]
(#1624) At certain orientations, text strings were erroneously clipped by the clipping planes when "auto clip planes" was set on the viewer. [P1]

6.0 Final release

(#594) The SoQtColorEditor and SoQtMaterialEditor did not go away when they were deleted.
(#1049) Objects were displayed too dark in SORTED_TRIANGLES_BLEND transparency type when the SoMaterial::transparency field was modified.
(#1230) If two selection nodes were added to a scene, the second selection did not receive an event.
(#1264) If SoCamera::ViewportMapping was set to LEAVE_ALONE and stereo was enabled, the scene wasn't displayed.
(#1296) Multi textures were sometimes displayed incorrectly when the transparency type was set to SORTED_LAYERS or SORTED_TRIANGLES.
(#1297) Under some circumstances, SORTED_LAYERS transparency was switched to SCREEN_DOOR when one was navigating around transparent objects.
(#1322) Incorrect display of some Open Inventor files when the transparency type was SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND.
(#1332) The display was incorrect when using SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND transparency when a textured object intersected other objects.
(#1334) Objects under a non delayed transparency type node became invisible when SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND was enabled.
(#1335) Objects under a DELAYED_xxx transparency type node became invisible when SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND and highlighting (e.g., pick highlighting) were enabled.
(#1351) If more than one color was specified for an SoPointSet or SoMarkerSet, and it was followed by an SoLineSet, when the the scene was rerendered, the color of the last line segment was used for the color of the first point or marker. This only occurred if caching was on (the normal state).
(#1356) SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND transparency used to be hard-coded to use texture unit 1. Now it used the highest numbered texture unit available on the hardware in order to minimized conflicts with other uses of the texture unit.
(#1390) An SoOctreeRendering node did not work correctly with sorted transparency type rendering.
(#1395) Transparent SoImage nodes were rendered opaque when the camera direction didn't match the order of the image nodes in the scene graph.
(#1405) There was a memory leak during navigation on VRML shapes and non-SCREENDOOR transparency types.
(#1420) SoOffscreenRenderer modified the viewer's viewport when the viewer GLRenderAction was used by the offscreen renderer.
(#1423) There was a crash in the NURBS tessellation using Open Inventor 5.0.5.
(#1424) The MFCSDI and MFCMDI example programs flashed when their windows were resized. This was an application problem related to OnEraseBkgnd.
(#1440) An instance of SoWriteAction failed to export more than two .iv files. This occurred with Open Inventor 5.0.5 and Visual C++ 7.1.
(#1441) SoWriteAction prevented cout from displaying messages.
(#1445) Some STL entry points were wrongly exported to the Open Inventor libraries, leading to possible duplicate entry points when linking an Open Inventor application that uses STL.