Kathleen Biagas

### Description This PR focuses on the change to dataset cell access, requiring 'const vtkIdType*'. (GetCellPoints, GetNextCell, InsertNextCell, GetCell). GetCell changed to GetCellAtId vtkCellLinks::Link::nCells changed from unsigned short to vtkIdType....

### Describe the bug #17796 removed openssl support from the CMake build to fix a problem on a fedora system. New ospray (2.8) needed for VTK-9 support utilizes CMake's `file(DOWNLOAD)`...

### Describe the bug I noticed this warning with the checks for one of my PR’s. ##[warning]The ubuntu-18.04 environment is deprecated, consider switching to ubuntu-20.04(ubuntu-latest), or ubuntu-22.04 instead. For more...

### Is your feature request related to a problem? See Discussions #17825, #17830. Curl (and other expressions) utilize Gradient under the covers, and it performs sampling and utilizes cell size...

### Describe the bug From [discussion 17171](https://github.com/visit-dav/visit/discussions/17171#discussioncomment-3069479). From log files, at least qjp2handler.cpp needs to include ` for` successful compilation with gcc 12.1.0 on ArchLinux. ### Desktop - OS and...

Line tool not initialized with Lineout endpoint values

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### Describe the bug If a plot has lineout applied, and the 'Lineout operator' options has 'interactive' turned on for the generated lineout curve, then the line tool should be...

Line tool appearing behind 2d plot during hot-point interactions

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### Describe the bug When line tool is activated for a 2D plot, user interaction with the hotpoints to move the endpoints or entire line causes the line to be...

CLI Convenience method to get a list of available variables

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### Is your feature request related to a problem? It can be helpful to know before you call AddPlot if the variable you want to plot is currently available. Checking...

### Describe the bug Here is the test function in flatten.py: ``` def test_box_selection(): # These test verify that the Query operates on # the actual data and not the...

Many color tables not useable with -noconfig

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### Describe the bug I came across this trying to use the 'Accent' color table in a test script, via `GetColorTable('Accent')` It caused an exception: `visit.VisItException: The argument must be...