[Paraview] MultiWindow with python scripts

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Lalith,

That's a known issue. We are working towards addressing it in the next
major release.

Utkarsh

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Lalith Wijerathne<lalithwij at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying tp use a python script to open MultiWindow paraview
> session and make a movie. As an example, I used the
> LoadStateMultiView.pvsm file included with ParaviewData. When I open
> this *.pvsm using the GUI (File->LoadState ), I can get a four equal
> sized 2x2 set of windows as shown below.
>    ___________
>   |         |         |
>   |_____|_____|
>   |         |        |
>   |_____|_____|
>
>
>   However, when I use the following python script, those windows no
> longer have the 2x2 equal size arrangement. Those are arranged in the
> following format
>
>    ____________
>   |         |           |
>   |         |______|
>   |         |     |     |
>   |_____|___|___|
>
> The python script I am using is
>
> ############################
>
> import exceptions
> from paraview import servermanager
> filename = "/home/Softwares/Paravew/ParaviewData/ParaViewData/Data/LoadStateMultiView.pvsm"
> try:
>  fp = open(filename, "r")
>  fp.close()
> except:
>  raise exceptions.RuntimeError, \
>    "Session file not found"
>
> if not servermanager.ActiveConnection:
>  servermanager.Connect()
> servermanager.LoadState(filename)
> Render()
> pxm = servermanager.ProxyManager()
> scene1 = pxm.GetProxy('animation', 'AnimationScene1')
> scene1.NumberOfFrames = 10
> writer = servermanager.vtkSMAnimationSceneImageWriter()
> writer.SetFileName('/home/lalith/Desktop/test2.jpg')
> writer.SetFrameRate(1)
> writer.SetAnimationScene(scene1.SMProxy)
> writer.Save()
>
> #############################
>
>  Also, the tiled images saved by this script has  borders along each
> small window.
> Could anybody help me to  get the proper window arrangement with a
> python script.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Lalith
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