ParaView/New Python Features

New Python GUI

A new set of tabs has been added to the python shell. The python shell is accessed from the main paraview menu: Tools --> Python Shell. The new tabs are:

• Directory view
• Macros
• Trace

Directory View

This tab has a text entry box to enter a script directory. By default, it is set to a 'demos' subfolder inside the paraview python module directory. Only files in the script directory ending with .py are displayed. The following buttons are available:

• Refresh - refreshes the directory view, for convenience if you change something on disk that paraview doesn't know about
• New script - launches the built in editor and displays a new document
• Run selected - runs the python script currently selected in the directory view
• Add to macros - adds the currently selected python script to the macro set

Python files in the directory view can be double clicked to open them in the editor.

New built in editor

For convenience there is a new built in script editor. It might be cool in the future to allow the user to specify a command to launch an external editor. The built in editor can be launched by double