[Paraview] FILE > OPEN plugin

[Jacques Papper]

If you want something graphical why don't you just use the lookmarks ?
Load the data you want and then just apply your lookmark.
Jacques

2009/1/9 Jorge Mario Mazo <jmm.mecanica at gmail.com>

> Hi everyone
>
> I have tried the python way and it works, but it´s kind of ugly,  and boss
> kind of wants a more graphic thing, so what I´m doing is making a filechoser
> in qt and then TRYING to pass the file name to the python script!
> so far no success.
>
>
> A couple of minutes ago I had this idea: write a file choser in python/TK,
> and run the script from paraview, any ideas if that would work?
>
> anyway thank to all, good tips
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Jean Favre <jfavre at cscs.ch> wrote:
>
>> On 08, Jan 2009 01:33 PM, mirko heuegger <mheuegger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >you mean, using the _same_ paraView state-file, but different
>> >'data'-files?
>> >if so, this is not really possible.
>>
>> There is a solution, using the Python Shell.
>>
>> 1) load your existing state file
>> 2) identify the name of your data object in the pipeline browser. It is
>> usually the filename stripped of its directory name
>> 3) open the Python Shell and type
>>
>> pm = servermanager.ProxyManager()
>> reader = pm.GetProxy('sources', 'filename')        # where 'filename' is
>> the string found above in 2)
>>
>> # your data object is likely to have a name called FileName.
>> # you may print it to verify
>> reader.FileName
>> # you may change it to a new filename
>> reader.FileName = "your new filename"
>>
>> 4) Forcing the render window to refresh itself will be enough to cause
>> the update of the whole pipeline. Otherwise, you get a handle to your
>> view and call StillRender, i.e.
>>
>> view = servermanager.GetRenderView()
>> view.StillRender()
>>
>> --
>> Jean --
>> Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
>>
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