[Paraview] PV3: Animation from legacy VTK timewise files

[Berk Geveci]

A user-written reader can do this as well. It is a matter of writing
the right xml. I am glad you asked, I will also add how you can do
this with custom readers to the wiki.

-berk


On 8/25/07, Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu> wrote:
> Can a user-written reader populate the time dialog?
>
> I maintain several custom readers for file formats that have all the
> times embedded in the files, invisible to PV, or that use file name
> patterns that are not recognized.
>
> Kent
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>
> Berk Geveci wrote:
> > This is already in the CVS ParaView. I will write a wiki page but to
> > summarize, ParaView automatically detects certain patterns (foo_1.vtk,
> > foo_2.vtk, foo1.vtk, foo2vtk etc) and groups them together in the file
> > dialog. If you select the whole group, it is opened as a file series.
> > You can then animate  and treat the VTK reader like any other time
> > aware reader. For now, this works for legacy vtk files only.
> >
> > -berk
>