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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 11:32 -0600, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:26:10PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 11:20 -0600, Anders Logg wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:15:55PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I've half fixed it (++mesh was missing). Now the first and the last are written.
> > > 
> > > What about the others?
> > > 
> > 
> > The problem seems to related to the hierarchy of meshes and keeping
> > track of how many times they have been output.
> > 
> > Garth
> 
> The MFile format uses the variable no_meshes (in GenericFile) to keep
> track of the number of meshes. Maybe keeping track of the number of
> objects save to a file should be something that only the file knows
> about? The mesh doesn't care how many times it's been saved to a file.
> Perhaps it's been stored to different files and then it doesn't make
> sense.
>
Yep, that's the problem. We should add a counter to GenericFile just to
indicate how many times data has been written to the file, irrespective
of whether it's a function, mesh, mixed,. . .

Garth

> We should probably remove operator++ from the class Variable.
> 
> There is also the possibility of looking at the name of a Variable
> when writing it to file.
> 
> /Anders
> 
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Delft University of Technology
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