[Fwd: Re: [Paraview] Is pvbatch available for PV3?]

[Kent Eschenberg]

Hi Jordi,

That looks like a very useful method for simulating the old batch support. And 
I like your idea of including it in the PV3 distribution.

Better yet, it would be nice to integrate it into PV so that the old "Save 
Batch" button actually writes the Python file. The old "pvbatch' program could 
return as a Python program that loads the saved file and makes whatever small 
changes are needed for the batch environment.

Kent

Jordi Campos i Miralles wrote:
> I use the PV-Dump.py I posted in:
> 
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2007-July/005427.html
> 
> 
> To "prepare a batch job interactively", save it to a python script and
> "perform a little editing" to obtain the "batch script".
> 
> Is it ok for you?
> 
> 
> 
> Fabian Braennstroem said it was ok form him
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2007-July/005432.html
> 
> and Michael Martinec -that has posted the original question
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2007-July/005423.html -
> emailed directly to me to say it was also ok for him.
> 
> 
> 
> Could we improve this PV-Dump.py (it is a script I coded just to show PV
> scripting capabilities in a presentation) and adding it as a "tool
> script" in the PV distribution?
> 
> 
> jor;)i
> 
> 
> El dc 11 de 07 del 2007 a les 13:04 -0400, en/na Utkarsh Ayachit va
> escriure:
>> Currently, we cannot save a python script (similar to the batch script) 
>> from the current GUI state. However, one can save the state xml from the 
>> client and simply load the state back in the python code using 
>> vtkSMProxyManager::LoadState().
>>
>> Also pvpython provides a module (paraview) which can be used to create 
>> displays (which are now called representations), views etc, so it is 
>> possible to write python scripts from scratch without too much effort.
>>
>> Utkarsh.
>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject:     Re: [Paraview] Is pvbatch available for PV3?
>>> Date:     Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:47:17 -0400
>>> From:     Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu>
>>> For me the key value of the previous batch support was that one could 
>>> prepare a batch job by running PV interactively, building the needed 
>>> display, then writing the current state to a file. The saved file always 
>>> needed a little editing but was a huge help in preparing the batch job.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to do the analogous thing with PV3? That is, save the 
>>> state of an interactive session as a Python script?
>>>
>>> Kent
>>> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>>>
>>> Amy Squillacote wrote:
>>>> PV3 has pvpython instead of pvbatch. pvbatch read Tcl scripts; 
>>>> pvpython reads Python scripts. Since ParaView 3 does not use Tcl, 
>>>> pvbatch will not be back.
>>>>
>>>> - Amy