[Paraview] How to Read Transient Structured Data

[Kent Eschenberg]

Berk, thanks, but that doesn't help. The Exodus reader uses that same 
technique noted below (a parameter provided by the RequestInformation 
call) that does not exist for vtkStructuredGridSource. Maybe I'm just dense!

Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Berk Geveci wrote:
> Take a look at vtkExodusReader.
> 
> -berk
> 
> 
> On 5/11/07, Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu> wrote:
>> I'm developing a new reader for ParaView 2.6.1 built upon
>> vtkStructuredGridSource. It responds to pipeline requests via
>> ExecuteInformation and ExecuteData.
>>
>> How do I tell the pipeline about the time steps? The only existing
>> reader I could find that uses vtkStructuredGridSource is vtkPLOT3DReader
>> which does not seem to produce transient data.
>>
>> I found another reader that is built on vtkUnstructuredGridAlgorithm
>> that responds to pipeline requests via RequestInformation and
>> RequestData. The RequestInformation arguments include
>>
>>     vtkInformationVector *outputVector
>>
>> that can be used to set vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::TIME_STEPS().
>> But there is no such argument for vtkStructuredGridSource's
>> ExecuteInformation.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> TIA
>> Kent
>> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center