[Paraview] python function documentation?

[David Doria]

Thanks Peter - good idea about grepping the source - that just always seems
like a last resort so I wanted to make sure I wasn't being silly and missing
some nice documentation some where first.

.ViewSize looks like what I was asking for, I'll give that a shot.

Thanks,

David


On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Peter Brady <petertbrady at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I agree that it can be a bit of a frustrating scavenger hunt.  I'm not
> sure what platform you're using but it will pay off if you get
> familiar with 'find' and 'grep' commands to dig through the paraview
> source.  In the meantime I think you're looking for something like,
>
> view.ViewSize = [number, number] to set the gui size.
> You can use something like 'view.ParallelScale' to zoom in (that's not
> the exact command but it should be listed in dir(view)).
>
> Good luck,
> Peter.
>
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:38 AM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hm I still don't see anything about how to set the size of the image? And
> I
> > also don't know how I would have found vtkImageWriter from WriteImage(),
> > when WriteImage() is not an actual function anywhere in the vtk docs.
> And
> > the same kind of thing, I thought maybe size would be changed in my:
> >
> > view=servermanager.CreateRenderView()
> > rep = servermanager.CreateRepresentation(reader, view)
> >
> > instead of in the actual writing step, but I didn't see servermanager in
> the
> > vtk docs. Also, I found a vtkCameraRepresentation, but it doesn't look
> like
> > this is the same thing created by CreateRepresentation. I found
> > vtkRenderView, and in vtkView (the parent class) there is a SizePort(i ,
> j)
> > function, but how would you call that from python? I think the main issue
> is
> > that python doesn't require the variables to be typed and hence I don't
> know
> > what they actually are.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Peter Brady <petertbrady at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Try the vtk documentation.  I think this page might be what you're
> looking
> >> for.
> >>
> >> http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkImageWriter.html
> >>
> >> Hope that helps,
> >> Peter.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:57 AM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > I am doing something like this:
> >> >
> >> > --------------
> >> > view=servermanager.CreateRenderView()
> >> > #render something
> >> > view.WriteImage("top.png", "vtkPNGWriter")
> >> > --------------
> >> >
> >> > I can find help with
> >> > help(servermanager)
> >> > or
> >> > help(servermanager.CreateRenderView)
> >> >
> >> > but not with
> >> >
> >> > help(servermanager.CreateRenderView.WriteImage)
> >> >
> >> > I was trying to figure out how to change the image size or see what
> >> > other
> >> > writes are available, things like that. I can't seem to find
> >> > documentation.
> >> > I found this:
> >> > http://www.paraview.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkPVRenderView.html
> >> >
> >> > But it doesn't have a WriteImage() function, so I guess I'm not in the
> >> > right
> >> > place?
> >> >
> >> > Can someone point me in the right direction?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > David
> >> >
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