[Paraview] best way to update a custom reader

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

One possibility is to create a custom panel with a timer which
periodically calls RequestInformation() to update the timesteps.

Utkarsh

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the best way to update my custom reader?
> I have a complex pipeline and my timesteps are continuously coming in -
> reloading the dataset and rebuilding the settings every time is not very
> funny.
> I CAN do it by calling RequestInformation (where I set the time range etc)
> each time I press 'left' or 'right' on the animation tab, but slows down
> playback, because the function does some extra IO. Maybe a custom filter
> calling RequestInformation of current dataset? Any other ideas?
>
> Dominik
>
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> Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
> Computational Physics Group
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