From 0462b292fffbdd7780fe85aa18ae8e7460dd73cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: heister <heister@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:36:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] find_active_cell_around_point now throws the exception
 ExcPointNotFound

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@30802 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
---
 deal.II/doc/news/changes.h        | 8 ++++++++
 deal.II/source/grid/grid_tools.cc | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
index 3120d72556..870ca7974c 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
+++ b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
@@ -85,6 +85,14 @@ inconvenience this causes.
 <h3>Specific improvements</h3>
 
 <ol>
+
+  <li>
+  Changed: find_active_cell_around_point now throws the exception ExcPointNotFound
+  if the point is outside the Triangulation. This exception can be caught.
+  <br>
+  (Timo Heister, 2013/09/18)
+  </li>
+
   <li>
   Changed: we now call MPI_Init_thread instead of MPI_Init.
   <br>
diff --git a/deal.II/source/grid/grid_tools.cc b/deal.II/source/grid/grid_tools.cc
index 292b113d62..f072a4d3dc 100644
--- a/deal.II/source/grid/grid_tools.cc
+++ b/deal.II/source/grid/grid_tools.cc
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ next_cell:
           }
       }
 
-    Assert (best_cell.first.state() == IteratorState::valid,
+    AssertThrow (best_cell.first.state() == IteratorState::valid,
             ExcPointNotFound<spacedim>(p));
 
     return best_cell;
@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ next_cell:
           }
       }
 
-    Assert (best_cell.first.state() == IteratorState::valid,
+    AssertThrow (best_cell.first.state() == IteratorState::valid,
             ExcPointNotFound<spacedim>(p));
 
     return best_cell;
-- 
2.39.5