[Paraview-developers] Rendering in Paraview using python

[Andy Bauer]

Hi,

Could you add in an issue for this at
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview?

Thanks,
Andy

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:55 AM, sumeet kumar <sumeet.kumar507 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, it works perfectly with paraview-gui. But, does not work when I am
> using pvpython or batch option. I have to manually load using  LoadPlugin()
> python command .
>
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There are quite a few plugins with ParaView and it's probably a bad idea
>> to automatically load them all. Some of them change the GUI, others require
>> MPI, etc.
>>
>> In your plugin.cmake file you can set your plugin to be automatically
>> loaded by adding in the AUTOLOAD option. See
>> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_plugins_to_
>> ParaView_source.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:08 AM, sumeet kumar <sumeet.kumar507 at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andy,
>>>
>>> LoadPlugin() helps in pvpython. But why does
>>> *from  paraview.simple import * *does not work???
>>>
>>> Why I need to externally load my plugin even I build with paraview
>>> source. Also, I don't think, Its a good design to set PV_PLUGIN_PATH  or
>>> PV_PLUGIN_CONFIG_FILE even when the plugin is build with source. The file
>>> "plugin.cmake" should take care all of this.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Sumeet
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> My guess is that the reader plugin is automatically loaded in the GUI
>>>> but not when you run pvpython directly. Look at the LoadPlugin() or
>>>> LoadDistributedPlugin() command in pvpython.
>>>>
>>>> Are you setting PV_PLUGIN_PATH or PV_PLUGIN_CONFIG_FILE? Another guess
>>>> may be that you're using PV_PLUGIN_PATH and/or PV_PLUGIN_CONFIG_FILE to
>>>> load the plugin automatically through the GUI and that isn't being utilized
>>>> when running with pvpython. See http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/P
>>>> lugin_HowTo for information on that.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:34 PM, sumeet kumar <
>>>> sumeet.kumar507 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a reader plugin integrated with paraview that works perfectly
>>>>> fine. I could use the same plugin to trace an "equivalent python code" for
>>>>> any visualization example.  The generated python code can be run again on
>>>>> paraview gui.
>>>>> BUT, when i try to follow the same python command in python externally
>>>>> like pvpython. I get the following error.
>>>>>
>>>>> >>> from paraview.simple import *
>>>>> updating active connection None
>>>>> paraview version 5.2.0-RC1
>>>>> updating active connection Connection (builtin:) [1]
>>>>> updating active connection Connection (builtin:) [1]
>>>>> >>> beam_Axial_Loadh5feioutput = pvESSI(FileName="/home/sumeet/Desktop
>>>>> /Beam_Axial_Load.h5.feioutput")
>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>>>> NameError: name 'pvESSI' is not defined
>>>>>
>>>>> My plugin name is pvESSI. the same line works on paraview GUI mode in
>>>>> python shell. I tried to look on the Internet and build the plugin inside
>>>>> the paraview source itself, but the problem remains.
>>>>>
>>>>> Others have suggested here on link http://www.paraview.org/piperm
>>>>> ail/paraview/2013-October/029428.html, but I dont understand where to
>>>>> make changes to fix this problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help would be highly appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best Regards
>>>>> Sumeet
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Sumeet Kumar Sinha
>>>>> Graduate Student
>>>>> Phone: (+1)  <%28%2B91%29%209910516219>5306018271 <(530)%20601-8271>
>>>>> Website : http://www.sumeetksinha.com/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Sumeet Kumar Sinha
>>> Graduate Student
>>> Phone: (+1)  <%28%2B91%29%209910516219>5306018271 <(530)%20601-8271>
>>> Website : http://www.sumeetksinha.com/
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Sumeet Kumar Sinha
> Graduate Student
> Phone: (+1)  <%28%2B91%29%209910516219>5306018271 <(530)%20601-8271>
> Website : http://www.sumeetksinha.com/
>
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