[Paraview] pathnames in .pvsm files

[Berk Geveci]

Andrew,

I'd say go ahead and submit a feature request. This (paths relative to
pvsm) is a very useful feature we should implement.

-berk

On 10/25/07, Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an issue relating to cross-platform usage of the ParaView .pvsm
> files.
>
> The problem I have is that when I create a .pvsm file under Windows and then
> move the file and associated datafiles to Linux, the absolute pathnames to
> the data files won't work (obviously). I now hand edit the file and convert
> the pathnames to relative pathnames which seems to work Ok.
>
> How difficult would it be to use relative paths (relative to the .pvsm file)
> and add the path to the .pvsm file when locating the datafiles.
>
> E.g If I created the .pvsm file in Windows my datafile may be called:
> "C:\Documents and Settings\amaclean\My
> Documents\Code\GeneralLibraries\UF\build\bin\release/bench.vtp"
> However if I am in Linux the datafile will end up in some directory such as:
> "/home/users/amaclean/WhoKnows/bench.vtp"
>
> So would it be possible to store these paths as relative to where the .pvsm
> file is stored? E.g ./bench.vtp and then let ParaView add the pathname of
> the .pvs, file to these names?
>
> Are there any problems/issues that the developers can see?
> I am happy to add it as a feature request if people think it is worthwhile
> (I do as we have people working on different platforms in the field without
> a central file server).
>
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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