[Paraview] Using GUI element Scale

[Mattijs Janssens]

Hello Jean,

Thanks for that. I'll download the cvs version and give it a go.

Regards,

Mattijs

Jean M. Favre wrote:
> Mattijs Janssens wrote:
> 
>> I need to define a time step selector so
>>
>> In my PVFoamReader.xml I have:
>>
>>         <Scale variable="TimeStep"
>>             trace_name="TimeStep"
>>             type="int"
>>             label="Time step"
>>             range="0 1"
>>             default_value="0"
>>             display_entry="1"
>>             display_value="1"
>>             entry_and_label_on_top="0"
>>             help="Set the current time step."
>>             range_source="TimeStepRange" />
>>
>> which will setup a call to GetTimeStepRange to get the max and min for 
>> the
>> slider.
> 
> 
> you are close to the solution.
> 
> Your XML looks good.
> 
> your reader should include:
> 
> class VTK_IO_EXPORT vtkfoo : public vtk???
> {
> public:
>   vtkSetVector2Macro(TimeStepRange,int);
>   vtkGetVector2Macro(TimeStepRange,int);
> protected:
>   int TimeStepRange[2];
> };
> 
> and your *.cxx reader source code can do the following during the 
> ExecuteInformation phase:
> 
> this->SetTimeStepRange(0, this->NbTimeSteps-1);
> 
> 
> It works for me. I use PV1.5 nightly.
> 
> Cheers