[Paraview] Time-Varying Input Sources

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Uhhhh... I dunno.  It should report all of the time steps.  Are you sure
your RequestInformation method is reporting all of the time steps, and not
just 2?

-Ken


On 9/29/08 10:13 AM, "Randall Hand" <randall.hand at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, that gets it to display 2 timesteps (0 and 1).  How do I get it to display
> all 48 so that the user can flip between them with the spinner up top?
>
> It still works with the Animation view if I manually configure it to show 48
> frames between 0 and 47.
> ----------------------------------------
> Randall Hand
> Visualization Scientist
> ERDC MSRC-ITL
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
>> Did you add the special TimestepValues property to the reader's server
>> manager XML definition?
>>
>>      <DoubleVectorProperty name="TimestepValues"
>>                            repeatable="1"
>>                            information_only="1">
>>        <TimeStepsInformationHelper/>
>>        <Documentation>
>>          Available timestep values.
>>        </Documentation>
>>      </DoubleVectorProperty>
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>
>> On 9/29/08 9:38 AM, "Randall Hand" <randall.hand at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> I've written a VTK File Reader that supports multiple timesteps (48 in my
>>>> tests).  But when I load the data, it shows me no timestep data in the
>>>> properties panel, and the time increment thing at the top toolbar is greyed
>>>> out.  However, if I use the Animation tools to animate from timestep0 to 47
>>>> >> in
>>>> 48 steps, it properly animates through time.
>>>>
>>>> What am I doing wrong?  My RequestInformation (where I think this
>>> information
>>>> comes from) is shown below:
>>>>
>>>>
>>> //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> --
>>>> int vtkAdhfaNetwork::RequestInformation(
>>>>   vtkInformation* reqInfo,
>>>>   vtkInformationVector** inVector,
>>>>   vtkInformationVector* outVector
>>>>   )
>>>> {
>>>>   if(!this->Superclass::RequestInformation(reqInfo,inVector,outVector))
>>>>     {
>>>>     return 0;
>>>>     }
>>>>
>>>>   vtkInformation *info=outVector->GetInformationObject(0);
>>>>   double tRange[2];
>>>>   tRange[0] = this->Steps[0];
>>>>   tRange[1] = this->Steps[this->NumSteps-1];
>>>>   info->Set(
>>>>     vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::TIME_RANGE(),
>>>>     tRange,
>>>>     2);
>>>>   info->Set(
>>>>     vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::TIME_STEPS(),
>>>>     this->Steps,
>>>>     this->NumSteps);
>>>>   return 1;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>> Randall Hand
>>>> Visualization Scientist
>>>> ERDC MSRC-ITL
>>
>>
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>>
>


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