Open Inventor - Fixed bugs

Open Inventor Fixed Bugs

Open Inventor 7.2

7.2 Final Release

(#6 & #223) IVF now supports the UNICODE character set.
(#790) Depending on Graphic Board, the Win32 time was altered (speeded up) during OIV animations.
(#801) SoOffscreenRenderer demo crashed on SGI platform when called on remote display.
(#984) PoSceneView can now be used with QT viewer classes.
(#1084) Calling setGraphicConfigTemplate opened an error window when no graphic config supported the requested features. It now follows the SoDebugError error catching mechanism.
(#1175) An error occured in the SbThread destructor when removing an SoExtTexture2 node whose texture was loaded asynchronously.
(#1179) Some SbThread methods related to thread priority were not well documented.
(#1415) The dragger associated with a transform manip was not updated correctly when scaleFactor field was changed.
(#1590) SoQtGLWidget::setCursor/getCursor is now implemented, allowing to redefine cursor shapes in Qt viewers.
(#1705) SoBox/LineHighlightRenderAction didn't highlight the selected shape when the SoSelection was set inside a PoSceneView.
(#1724) Freeze in debug mode when the read/writeLock (SbThreadRWMutex) timeout expired. Not reproducible in version 7.2.
(#1919) ivFix tool did not handle SoProfileCoordinate3 and SoCoordinate4 correctly.
(#1922) SoBoxHighlightRenderAction didn't manage render cache correctly, resulting in performance drop on large geometry. Same as #2331.
(#1932) Adaptive tessellation failed to fully render nurbs when tesselationType was set to adaptive mode and knot values did not start at 0.
(#1954) DXF files with TABLE section at the begining instead of a HEADER section are now supported.
(#1975) Offscreen renderer didn't interpret the field SoDrawStyle::lineWidth as described in the ref manual. Not reproducible in version 7.2.
(#2116) Picking failed when setStereoAbsoluteAdjustments was enabled.
(#2243) IVF AppWizard now works correctly for Microsoft VC8 and VC9 environments.
(#2302) SoHandleEventAction has a new method enableRadiusForTriangles (pass through to SoRayPickAction method).
(#2312) OffscreenRenderer failed to display a curveFilling node when pbuffer was disabled.
(#2330) Double deletion of Qt4 viewer buttons that may have occured when exiting an application is now fixed.
(#2331) SoBoxHighlightRenderAction didn't manage render cache correctly, resulting in performance drop on large geometry. Same as #1922.
(#2332) SoXtViewer now supports HTML format help files like SoQtViewer does.
(#2334) Calling SoWin::init/finish multiple times when an error console is visible no longer crashes.
(#2342) Shapes in FILLED drawStyle disappeared when resizing the viewer when multiple viewers shared the same scene graph.
(#2345) FPS estimation displayed in QtLargeModelViewer was incorrect in some cases.
(#2347) Accented characters were not displayed correctly on Linux.
(#2348) Crash occured when opening/closing a viewer multiple times when accented characters were used in the scene graph.
(#2349) Default system font directory was wrong for Linux/RHEL5 platform. /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1 has been added in the list of system paths to check.
(#2351) NurbsSurface crashed when rotating the scene with the mouse cursor inside the render area of the viewer. Same as #2351.
(#2352) NurbsSurface crashed when rotating the scene after switching the drawStyle from hiddenLine to AsIs. Same as #2351.
(#2353) SplitAction crashed when applied to a sub-graph that included an indexedTriangleStripSet. Not reproducible in version 7.2.
(#2354) SoRayPickAction didn't always give the right picking location.
This is not a bug, but a limitation of single precision arithmetic. The picked point coordinate may be incorrect when the magnitude of the vertex coordinates is relatively large (e.g. 1e6) and the view volume is relatively small (e.g. 1). It is now possbile to force double precision computation by setting the environment variable OIV_DOUBLE_PRECISION. But note this currently only applies to the specific situation reported in but 2354 (screen coord picking of triangles). More general use of double precision is planned for OIV 8.0.
(#2356) It is now possible to enable 2-sided lighting for vertex shaders using the new field SoShaderProgram::vertexProgramTwoSide.
(#2358) A misleading error message appeared when the maximum number of floating (FlexLM) licenses was exceeded.
(#2376) Invalid nurbs display when SoComplexity::type was set to OBJECT_SPACE. Same as 2396.
(#2383) SoVRMLPixelTexture wasn't mapped correctly on subsequent shapes.
(#2393) Updating subtexture in NEAREST mode was very slow.
(#2396) Invalid nurbs display when SoComplexity::value was set to specific values. Same as 2376.
(#2403) SoQtComponent::hide function erroneously hid the parent of the Qt component on which it was called.
(#2407) Text nodes weren't displayed correctly after loading fonts several times.
(#2416) SbRasterImage was not deleting memory in NO_COPY_AND_DELETE mode, resulting in a memory leak.
(#2417) Viewer layout in Qt viewers was not done properly when the user tried to add/remove/insert new buttons.
(#2421) Fullscreen display didn't work correctly on MacOSX.
(#2426) Crash when trying to display an indexed shape with an invalid number of material indices. An error is now reported.
(#2431) SoTabBoxManip had erratic behavior when dragging near window borders becasue of computation precision issues.
(#2432-2481) Loading and picking on large iv files performance regression introduced in 7.0 version has been fixed.
(#2434) FastEdit background became black when stereo was toggled.
(#2442) Crash when selecting an SoAnnoText3 node under SoSelection.
(#2443) Stereo Preferences dialog did not update correctly when values were set programmatically.
(#2444) Stereo Preferences dialog crashed on large stereo value.
(#2446) Memory allocation errors are now handled correctly through the SoMemoryerror API.
(#2453) The notification and evaluation of engines didn't match the chapter 6 of The Inventor Toolmaker.
(#2454) Loading some invalid VRML files crashed the application, instead of just reporting the error.
(#2458) VRML text was not displayed at the correct size (too large).
(#2465) FlexLM is now supported on Vista platform.
(#2468) It is now possible to modify the behavior of VIEWING_MODE_SPIN_CONSTRAINED mode in SoQtExaminerViewer to only allow one axis of rotation. See new method setConstrainedViewingMode().
(#2469) The Seek cursor is now correctly displayed in a planeViewer if an orthographic camera is added in the scene graph.
(#2472) Specular lighting was not supported on textured VRML geometry (e.g. SoVRMLSphere).
(#2485) On Windows Vista using the Aero configuration, depending on the pixel format selected, Aero might be disabled in some cases. For compatibility the current pixel format selection logic has been retained (for example, Aero compatibility means GDI support is disabled, which could be an issue for some applications). However you can now request Aero compatibility by setting the new environment variable OIV_PFD_COMPOSITION_SUPPORT. We recommend setting this variable (for example using SoPreferences) if Aero compatibility is important for users of your application.
(#2488) OffscreenRenderer crashed when exporting SoExtTexture2 nodes.
(#2490) SoVectorizeAction did not display text when the renderStyle TEXTURE was enabled.

Open Inventor 7.1

7.1.1 Patch : Bugs fixed as of June 28, 2008

(#2360) Crash in SoFontServer::addCache when continuously rotating a demo with 2D text.
(#2379) Disabling raw stereo permanently removes the head light.

7.1 Final release

(#282-#1618) Italian localization of viewer menu and popup was incomplete.
(#318) SoToVRML2Action generated error messages when input file alrady had an SoVRMLGroup node as root.
(#503) Some BMP file format where not correctly loaded.
(#545) Texture coordinates were lost by the reorganize action when applied on an extTexture2 node.
(#555-#949-#655-#1194-#1927-#2189) Memory leaks on some demo were fixed.
(#556) Most Transparency type are now accessible through SceneViewer demo.
(#592) Setting Raw stereo in a config file was not taken in account correctly.
(#692-673-1460-1899-2196-2256) Using Remote Display on X environement could reverse RGB color.
(#707) Sometimes default cursor border is black instead of white on Linux SoXtViewer.
(#822) SoMPEGRenderer::closeFile doesn't allow to move or delete the new file when no image is stored.
(#1125) SoWriteToxxx methods free the offscreen buffer by calling the SoXXXImageRW destructor.
(#1190)Some SGI RGB files wasn't displayed correctly by SoTexture2
(#1237) readAll method doesn't return any Separator when the root of the imported file inherits from SoGroup.
(#1306) Method SbConfig::printInfo did not display the visualID nor the pixelFormat.
(#1364) Passwords saved in registry can't be found by OIV for Win64.
(#1409) Reference counter of a selected node were not reinitialized when the viewer is closed.
(#1426) Compression mode for Tiff output didn't worked well.
(#1475) DXT3 and DXT5 textures may crash depending on transparency.
(#1772) matchIndexArrays action of SoReorganizeAction may crash when applied to SoIndexedFaceSet.
(#1801) SoPickAction could failed depending on current OpenGL context settings.
(#1855) ivfix removes textures when he shouldn't.
(#1926) Automatic spin of SoQtViewer was disabled when adding a trackballManip.
(#1976) Textured characters become black squares when zooming in.
(#1983) Open Inventor public headers compilation now support agressive gcc warning flags.
(#2024) canCreateInstance do not return true on internal type SoUnknownNode.
(#2072) The ? button of SceneViewer and QtLargeModelViewer didn't open help dialog on Linux.
(#2104) The search of texture files did not follow the SoTexture2::filename field description
(#2129) SoVRMLImageTexture returns MODULATE in SoCallbackAction::getTextureMode.
(#2146) Defining value for metadata field in SoVRMLNode/SoVRMLGeometry, VRML files did not apply correctly.
(#2164-#2199) SoQt material palette selection did not work properly with Qt4.
(#2169) Loading Open Inventor on Windows 2000 failed due to SetDLLDirectory missing entry point.
(#2187) Multiple call to SoDB::writelock resulted in a deadlock.
(#2191) SoQt shared context was not handled correctly.
(#2201) Unstable Parallax in absolute stereo mode.
(#2202) OpenGL Raw Stereo mode does not reset properly to mono after disabling stereo.
(#2203) Customization of viewers decoration did not work properly.
(#2205) SoMFNode::start/finishEditing did not ref/unref its values.
(#2210) Crash in the winRenderArea constructor when passing FALSE to in the last parameter of the constructor (manage keyboard and mouse device).
(#2213) Textured text were replaced by black squares after zoom manipulation.
(#2219) TIFF texture import fails on Win64 due to bad IvDLTiff library exported symbols.
(#2224) Bad stereo rendering with shapkits.
(#2244) IVF example BoxZoom did not compile properly with VC8.
(#2245) IVF example DualA crashed on exit (VC8)
(#2248) Deleting graphicConfig before the viewer created a stack overflow.
(#2253) WM_xBUTTONDBLCLK was never sent properly to the setEventCallback.
(#2254) Textured text may provoks defect on next shapes colors.
(#2263) Maximizing a child viewer not built inside his parent didn't competely repaint the glx zone.
(#2270) SbString::sprintf failed to copy strings larger than 512 characters.
(#2268) Rotation axis color was changed depending on SoGradientBackground node.
(#2275) Memory corrupted may occured when expanding the string field of a text node.
(#2276) Loading large scene graph iv files took a very long time compared to previous version.
(#2279) Memory corruption occured when two SbName returned the same SbString::hash value.
(#2289-2290) Switching from unicode to non unicode SbString may caused a crash in SbString.
(#2303) Memory leak that may occured when using SoIndexedTexture2 image buffer has been fixed.
(#2315) Crash may occured when creating/removing text nodes many times
(#2316) SbString Unicode comparison was broken.
(#2333) Text disappeared after multiple SoSB::init/finish cycles.
(#2336) MultiTexture was broken when using texture3D loaded from an .iv file. Current texture unit was not correctly taken in acount in SoGLTextureImage3Element.
(#2341) SoPRINTF macros defined in SbBasic.h hides warnings.

Open Inventor 7.0

Patch 7.0.1 : Bugs fixed as of February 20, 2008

(#104) An Indexed LineSet is (sometimes) drawn in the wrong color.
(#818) Text not displayed correctly on Linux and Aix when OIV_PSFONT_PATH isn't set or set to $OIVHOME/data/fonts:/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
(#1095) setValuesPointer function is now available for all SoMFVecxx class.
(#1650) SORTED_OBJECT_TRIANGLES_xxx transparency types prevent the viewer destructor to release 1 ref to the root node.
(#2008) IvTune.h doesn't load automatically IvTune.lib.
(#2017) Multipipe example doesn't work on IRIX.
(#2026) Add full programmatic control of epsilon used in picking very small triangles, by using new static function SbLine::setIntersectEpsilon(const float epsilon) allowing user to change the epsilon precision during execution.
(#2039) Crash when loading VRML files with long name in ROUTE field.
(#2090) Some Binary iv files cannot be displayed correctly in SceneViewer.
(#2103) Crash when displaying VRML file with ElevationGrid due to uninitialized variables.
(#2109) Loading iv files with IndexedPointSet can causes a parsing error.
(#2127) Wrong normal or vertex ordering with polygonal text when gathering geometry with a triangle callback action.
(#2130) SoEnvironment node has effects outside its parent separator.
(#2131) SoText3 with TEXTURE renderStyle can't be picked.
(#2132) Qt4 version of viewer cannot be created if buildInsideParent is set to FALSE.
(#2140) PBuffer creation crash on RHEL5.
(#2142) Cursors viewer not displayed with Qt4 in debug mode.
(#2143) VRMLInterpolators cannot be instanciated correctly.
(#2144) Using SO_ENGINE_INIT_ABSTRACT_CLASS macro causes compilation error.
(#2145) SoFieldContainer::getField() method returns bad field or crash on 64 bits platform.
(#2146) Defining value for metaData VRMLNode field in VRML files does not apply.
(#2147) GraphicConfig demo crash.
(#2148) SoPassiveStereo link erro on Unix platform with Qt4.
(#2154) More user error are check and display when bad user dataset are given.
(#2160) IvToInclude do not work correctly.
(#2161) Viewer decoration refresh issues with Qt4.
(#2163) SoQtSlider disappears after minimizing/maximizing application.
(#2165) QT4 material editor refresh issue with Qt4.
(#2170) Qt4 fullscreen do not work with QtTreeview demo.
(#2138) libGlw not correctly packaged for RHEL5 platform.
(#2188) MarkerSet cannot be selected.

7.0 Final release

(#792) The sorted triangles transparency types used the SoMaterial color when they should have used the vertex property color. This problem applied to the following transparency types: SORTED_TRIANGLES_ADD, SORTED_TRIANGLES_BLEND, SORTED_OBJECT_TRIANGLES_ADD, SORTED_OBJECT_TRIANGLES_BLEND.
(#940) There was an incorrect floating value comparison in SbRotation::setValue method. When using a tab box dragger and scaling down to obtain a plane, sometimes the following message appeared:
```
   Inventor error in SbRotation::setValue(const SbMatrix &)():
   Rotation does not agree with matrix; this routine only works with 
   rotation matrices!
```
(#1708) 2 SoTexture2 nodes based on renderToTextureProperty can't be rendered in 1 scene graph
(#1108) SORTED_TRIANGLES_BLEND transparency didn't support multi-texturing display. Only the first texture was displayed.
(#1137)[Enhancement] SoAnnoText3 shapes with renderPrintType set to RENDER2D... had limited text size. User can now change the default value by using the OIV_MAX_VIEWING_FONT_SIZE environment variable or the SoAnnoText3Property::setMaxViewingFontSize() static method.
(#1197) Incorrect refresh of popup and menu bar in Qt application during large scene animation. Sometimes the viewer popup or menu bar became semi-transparent. This was a manifestation of the timing issue reported in ebug #1565.
(#1245) Materials defined inside an SoIndexedTriangleStripSet were ignored by the transparency types SORTED_*TRIANGLES_BLEND.
(#1397) The methods setRadius and setRay of rayPickAction can't be used simultaneously to define a world-space ray along which to pick.
(#1455) Crash occurred when using ivToVRMLAction (Same as #1837.)
(#1565) OIV_QT_TIMER_THREAD was not working in OIV 6.0.1. This is not an issue working with Qt 4.x. When working with Qt 3.x, you must use the following workaround:
- set OIV_DELAY_SENSOR_TIMEOUT to 0
- set OIV_QT_TIMER_THREAD to 1
(#1669) Animation on large scene stopped when the QtExaminer viewer popup menu was mapped. See #1565 for workaround.
(#1691) SoTexture3 crash when 3 2D images are defined in the field filenames.
(#1740) In some cases, SoRayPickAction didn't return the right shapes when using setRay(). Now the default field of view angle is 0.0003F and can be redefined by the user to adjust the view volume used internally by SoRayPickAction by using the OIV_SET_RAY_PRECISION environment variable. There is also a new vrsion of setRay() that takes an fovy.
(#1746) SoRayPickAction::setRay failed to select shapes when the Z component of the ray was greater than 10. This is because clipping to the near and far planes was supposed to be disabled when using negative (or default) values as the 3rd and 4th parameters of SoRayPickAction::setRay().
(#1747)[Enhancement] SoSFImage did not allow storage of an image size larger than 32767 (MAX_SHORT). The type of m_size field (SoSFImage) has been changed from SbVec2s to SbVec2i32 to allow support for larger images. For compatibility, functions taking SbVec2s as argument have been kept.
(#1761) The viewer popup and Qt combo box couldn't be used during Qt viewer spin animation. Specifically, the popup and combo box sub-menus weren't displayed. See #1565 for details.
(#1774) When SORTED_OBJECT_TRIANGLES_BLEND transparency was enabled, all objects were rendered with the material of the first transparent object.
(#1775) Crash when selecting SORTED_OBJECT_TRIANGLES_BLEND transparency after SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND transparency.
(#1812) Shapes added under a fastEdit Separator in a nodekit weren't displayed.
(#1837) SoToVRML(2) Action crashed when applied to SoIndexedTexture nodes. It crashed in SoConvertGuts::convertSoVertexProperty.
(#1859) Some DXF files containing leading white space were not read correctly due to an error in SoInput.
(#1875) The Open Inventor installer modified DevStudio settings without asking for customer consent. Consent was requested for setting environment variables but not for modifying the Visual Studio settings.
(#1900) A problem deriving a new element class was fixed. SO_ELEMENT_INIT_ABSTRACT_CLASS erroneously created a new classStack index.
(#1968) Buffer overflow problems that occured when trying to use more than 10 passes in DELAYED_SORTED_LAYER_BLEND or SORTED_LAYER_BLEND transparency mode.
(#1973) Using FLEXnet license caused a small memory leak.
(#1965) SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND and DELAYED_SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND transparency types caused GL errors.
(#1940) [Enhancement] Request a way to generate then to visualize LDM volumes with more than one voxel overlap. Bigger overlap area allows better interpolation than the classic bilinear approach. Furthermore, this improvement fixes lighting artifacts between slices. -b option of SoLDMConverter now supports values greater than 1.
(#1976) Textured characters became black squares when one zoomed in.
(#1977) The override flag was written to .iv files by SoWriteAction if the programmer had set the override flag in his application. This caused issues for users who expected to be able to read their new .iv files in older versions of Open Inventor.
(#1979) SoFragmentShader and SoVertexShader did not generate any warning or error message when a specified shader source file could not be loaded.
(#1980) [Windows] Crash in connectFrom when allocating 3GB before loading Inv6xx.dll. The crash happened when connecting the 16th or 32nd field. It only crashed when the Inventor dll was placed in memory areas 32bit.
(#1981) Crash in the constructor of SoRenderToTextureProperty. It didn't crash in 6.0.3.
(#1983) SbLinear.h generated error when using strict compiler options on g++ 4.1.1 due to a namespace defined at the very end of the file with a semi-colon after the closing brace..
(#1985) Crash trying to set useAutoMipmap field (inherited from SoTexture).
(#1990) SoQtMaterialEditor and SoQtDirectionalLightEditor crashed in constructor.
(#1993) [HP-UX] libIvDLLm wasn't provided in the HPUX distribution of OIV 6.1.1. This lib was required for floating licenses AND for installation without DirectViz password.
(#2000) SORTED_(OBJECT_)TRIANGLES_BLEND types crashed in RegularGrid3D demo.
(#2001) IvDLOpenAL32.dll and the IvDLZlib.dll were not versioned correctly, which prevented installers from overwriting previous versions of these two DLLs.
(#2007) Changing the value of SoColorMap::predefinedColorMap didn't immediately update the display.
(#2012) There was a crash in SbThreadMutex::unlock when displaying SoVolumeIndexedFaceset. The same application worked with OIV 6.1.1 on Win32.

(#2016) The was a run-time error when enabling DirectViz in debug mode.

  Runtime Error !
  Program: C:\...
  R6034
  An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime lib 
  incorrectly.

(#2021) [Windows] Upon exit of the example program MFCSDI, the VC++ 8 compiler reported a memory leak. The fix was to add SoWin::finish() to the application.
(#2022) [Unix] The IvDL* libs depended on libInventor.so. It wasn't possible to build a static Open Inventor binary that didn't require separate Inventor/image dynamic libs. Now it is possible.
(#2023) All of the HLHSR modes (except HIDDEN_LINES_REMOVAL) crashed SoVectorizeAction or produced empty output files. It worked in 6.1.1.
(#2029) When using transparency type SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND or DELAYED_SORTED_LAYERS_BLEND with half-screen stereo, one of the views was black.
(#2036) IvDLLm provided in OIV 6.1.2 for VC8 depended incorrectly on some Microsoft debug DLLs: MSVCR80D and MSVCP80D. It should only depend on release versions of Microsoft dlls.
(#2037) SoNodes.h, a header file provided for convenience, was missing some headers, such as SoSelection.h and SoExtSelection.h.
(#2040) Markers couldn't be displayed when a groupAxis was added to the scene and the binary was built with static OIV libs. It worked in OIV 5.0.5.(Same as ebug 2041.)
(#2041) [Linux] Crash in SoXt::finish after loading an .iv file containing a group3Axis and a MarkerSet shape. The crash only occurred when the application was built with static Open Inventor libs.
(#2048) [Windows] Heap corruption occurred when loading in SceneViewerD a sphere with a low complexity. No error was seen in release mode.
(#2064) OIV_NO_FLEXNET env variable has been added in order disable 's checking of FLEXnet licenses. This can be helpful at times to avoid conflicts between the Open Inventor FLEXnet license checking and FLEXnet license checking that the application may be doing in order to work with other software packages.
(#2073) SoDB::readAll didn't properly load an engine with at most 2 input fields and at least 1 connected field. The connected input field was duplicated when reading such an engine.
(#2074) Unexpected GROUP_REMOVE_CHILD trigger occurred on nodes where no child was deleted. This remove_child trigger happened on a node (abnormal) and its child (normal) when the child of its child was deleted.
(#2083) Crash when loading an SoTextureCubeMap in an application initialized with threadInit, even if there was no thread created. It didn't crash if init was called instead of threadInit.
(#2085) 3D text strings sometimes affected the lighting of downstream primitives (since Open Inventor 6.0).
(#2092)[Enhancement] SoRayPickAction now has a getNormalizedPoint method to go with its setNormalizedPoint method.
(#2113) Deleting viewer did not release all associated GDI object (memory leak).

(#2114) Setting the ignore flag of an SoText3 node affected the normals of subsequent face sets.