[Paraview-developers] How to read time data in custom reader plugin

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

What you can do is make your internal reader which is used to read a
timestep put out a correct value for
vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::TIME_STEPS()/TIME_RANGE() keys in
the outInfo in its RequestInformation(). The vtkFileSeriesReader
iterates over all files in the series to gather that information is
possible ( see  vtkFileSeriesReader::RequestInformation).

Utkarsh

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Schlottke, Michael
<M.Schlottke at aia.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> How can I make my custom plugin reader be aware of the simulation time,
> which is stored in the solution files I want to read? Thanks to the
> vtkFileSeriesReader (?) plugin I can already read in a series of files (i.e.
> solution_000*) and traverse through them in the correct order. However, in
> the “time” field only the time step number is displayed, but not the actual
> simulation time. How can I make ParaView use the correct time? I guess it's
> something I have to add to the “RequestInformation(..)” method in my reader.
> Is anyone there who has already solved this problem for her/himself?
>
> Thank you very much in advance
>
> Michael
>
> P.S.: I’m sure that this must have been asked here before, but I wasn’t able
> to find anything in the archives. If I missed something I’d greatly
> appreciate a link to the correct thread.
>
>
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