[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: Time-varying data reader

[Moreland, Kenneth]

In that case, someone should definitely update the wiki page.

I see a note added by Jourdain on another page (http://paraview.org/Wiki/ServerManager_XML_Hints#TimeSeries_readers) that suggests a change in 3.12. Perhaps he can update the example.

-Ken

Sent from my iPad so blame autocorrect.

On Aug 24, 2012, at 11:27 AM, "Joe Ping-Lin Hsiao" <phsiao at cs.unc.edu> wrote:

> It's working!
> I just followed the VTK reader code in readers.xml at
> ParaView3.14.1\ParaViewCore\ServerImplementation\Resources.
> 
> Ken,
>  I first tried the xml code from the wiki, but I couldn't even read a
> file. I guess the xml scheme had changed in ParaView 3.14, and what's
> on the wiki is for older versions of ParaView.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
>> It looks like there is a Wiki page describing how to use the
>> vtkFileSeriesReader to convert a reader to understand file series.
>> 
>> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series
>> 
>> -Ken
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/23/12 3:35 PM, "David E DeMarle" <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> To make uniformly increasing time denoted in numbered file sequences,
>>> encapsulate your reader in a sub proxy of a vtkFileSeriesReader. See
>>> readers.xml for numerous examples of that.
>>> 
>>> If you need nonuniform temporal spacing or need to improve upon the
>>> file series reader's IO performance, make your reader supply temporal
>>> information and respond to time requests appropriately in
>>> RequestInformation and RequestData respectively. See
>>> vtkTimeSourceExample for an example of that.
>>> 
>>> David E DeMarle
>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>> R&D Engineer
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>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Joe Ping-Lin Hsiao <phsiao at cs.unc.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I have written a customized reader in ParaView which reads 3D stacks.
>>>> Now I'd like to add the function of reading time-varying data to it,
>>>> so I can create animations from stacks.
>>>> 
>>>> ParaView has this function already. If I convert time-varying stacks
>>>> and name them stack001.vtk, stack002.vtk, and etc, ParaView would
>>>> recognize the sequence and load them in at once, and I'd be able to
>>>> play the animation just by clicking the 'Play' icon.
>>>> 
>>>> I wonder is there any example of how to do that to a reader?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Joe
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