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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Matthias,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Using the topic_CommandProperty branch on the stage git repo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I added the following to readers.xml under the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:blue"> <</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#A31515">SourceProxy</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:blue">
</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:red">name</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:blue">=</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif"">"<span style="color:blue">XMLUnstructuredGridReaderCore</span>"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:blue"> …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:blue"> <</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#A31515">CommandProperty</span><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:red">name</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:blue">=</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif"">"<span style="color:blue">Reload</span>"<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:red">label</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:blue">=</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif"">"<span style="color:blue">Reload Data</span>"<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:red">command</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:blue">=</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif"">"<span style="color:blue">Modified</span>"<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:red">si_class</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:blue">=</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif"">"<span style="color:blue">vtkSIProperty</span>"<span style="color:blue">></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:blue"> </</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#A31515">CommandProperty</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:blue">></span><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">and a button is created inside the panel for the reader (the file series reader also needs to expose the property because the reader is actually inside the
file series reader).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">When you click the button the client side proxy is marked as modified, and when you hit accept the Modified function is called on the server side object (the
reader) – this then triggers a re-execution and the reader rereads from disk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">All works as expected. I shall see if I can get this accepted into the next patch release as I believe it is a very handy capability to have in a number of
places. I’ll add the xml changes and push them too, but perhaps other readers (of the list) might suggest which other readers (of files) need this feature added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">JB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org">paraview-bounces@paraview.org</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org]">
[mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Zenker, Dr. Matthias<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 08 March 2012 10:36<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Paraview] reload data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I would like to watch a running transient simulation producing one binary vtu file per timestep. Is there a way to reload the current data set so that newly written timesteps
are included (e.g. in the “Plot selection over time” filter), without closing and reopening the whole dataset?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Matthias<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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