[Paraview] Understanding the PVSM File from 3.2.1

[Berk Geveci]

> 1) Documentation of the PVSM
>
> In a few cases its obvious how to understand what needs to go into this file if
> you read about the corresponding C++ class. But there are many other cases
> where that doesn't seem to be the case.
>
> Is there a documentation of the PVSM file somewhere? Or is one never to edit it
> directly? Editing is almost always needed for batch work.

The easiest way of doing this may be to load the state in python, make
the appropriate changes to proxies/properties through python and dump
a new state. This way, you won't have to learn details of the pvsm
format (which tends to be complicated).

-berk