[Paraview] Better names for 'representations' ?

[Berk Geveci]

I agree with Utkarsh. Since the user interface hides the
representation objects from the user, the appropriate interface for
getting representations should take (view, source) as the argument.
Views on the other hand should probably be named so that it is easy to
match Python names to something in the GUI.

-berk

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> The request does seem reasonable. However, with the upcoming changes
> to the python API, it will provide better/nicer ways of locating
> representations irrespective of their names. So the naming issue would
> probably be redundant.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am wondering whether it would be possible or reasonable to have ParaView
>> match the names of proxies in 'sources' and 'representations'?
>>
>> When working from Python, it's easy to get a proxy from 'sources' if you
>> know its name from the pipeline. The name even changes when you edit it in
>> the pipeline. In contrast, 'representations' proxies are named
>> 'DataRepresentation1', 'DataRepresentation2', etc., and to find the proper
>> proxy I always have iterate through the representation proxies and check for
>> a match between the proxy from 'sources' and the representation proxy Input.
>>
>> Since I don't understand much about all the client/server/proxy stuff, I
>> don't know if this is a reasonable request, or if it's difficult for PV to
>> do things internally like change the representation name when the source
>> name is changed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Eric
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Eric E Monson
>> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>>
>>
>>
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