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

[David Fuentes]

Control-C

seems to be disabled in the GUI python shell?


Tools -> Python Shell

execfile("script.py")



Control-C  doesn't seems to be able to interrupt the script execution?
When looping through time instances I want to stop the script
at a given time.  Is there a method to interrupt the script execution?



thanks,
df




On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Berk Geveci wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> 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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>> df
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>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Berk Geveci wrote:
>>
>>> What you need is something like:
>>>
>>> pm=servermanager.ProxyManager()
>>> femdata = pm.GetProxy("sources","femdata")
>>> for i in range(10):
>>> femdata.FileName = "foo%d.inp" % i
>>> servermanager.GetRenderView().StillRender()
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> -berk
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:50 PM, David Fuentes <fuentesdt at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  pm=servermanager.ProxyManager()
>>>>  femdata = pm.GetProxy("sources","femdata")
>>>>  femdata.SetPropertyWithName("FileName",".../new_filename.inp")
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> using paraview 3.2.1,
>>>> df
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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