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

[Jordi Campos i Miralles]

Perfect!

Is there anybody in the PV team, to contact with, in order to work on
this issue?

jor;)i


BTW, I finally presented VTK/PV (including the PV-Dump.py) to my
research group. The slides and examples codes are here:

http://truja.lsi.upc.edu/movibio/Members/jordi/Research/Notes/VTK-PV/Slides/

;)

El dc 11 de 07 del 2007 a les 15:07 -0400, en/na Kent Eschenberg va
escriure:
> 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
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Jordi Campos i Miralles
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