[Paraview] python to change reader filename and animate AVS files

[Berk Geveci]

I am afraid you cannot. I think it is a good idea though. You may want
to consider filing a feature request here: http://paraview.org/Bug

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM, David Fuentes <fuentesdt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Can you return control to the GUI during the execution of the python script?
> During the loop I want to enable GUI interaction w/ the view,
> i.e. use mouse to rotate/translate/etc...
> but ParaView will not let me move/rotate until After the script is complete.
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> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Berk Geveci wrote:
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>> What you need is something like:
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>> pm=servermanager.ProxyManager()
>> femdata = pm.GetProxy("sources","femdata")
>> for i in range(10):
>> femdata.FileName = "foo%d.inp" % i
>> servermanager.GetRenderView().StillRender()
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>> ParaView takes care of updating other objects for you. If you want to
>> learn more, I suggest searching for "demand driven pipeline". The VTK
>> book is a good source of information.
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>> -berk
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>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:50 PM, David Fuentes <fuentesdt at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Not sure if the AVS file reader is "time aware" but,
>>> using the python interface it seems possible to write a script
>>> to animate a time series of AVS files.  Changing the reader filename via
>>> the
>>> python interface seems to work:
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>>>  pm=servermanager.ProxyManager()
>>>  femdata = pm.GetProxy("sources","femdata")
>>>  femdata.SetPropertyWithName("FileName",".../new_filename.inp")
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>>> To create an animation would probably have to update various
>>> other objects attached to the reader though.
>>> How could you determine all objects attached to the reader
>>> that need to be updated?
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>>>
>>> using paraview 3.2.1,
>>> df
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>>>
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