[Paraview] Two follow-up questions on readers

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

As far as "enumerating files' goes, ParaView does indeed group files
together based on some patterns irrespective of the file extensions.
So it should work fine for *.custom files. One advantage of using a
collection file (such as pvd) over just a raw file series is that it's
possible to specify time values of each timestep. If that's not
important, then I'd look at how the xml for "LegacyVTKFileReader" is
written in Servers/ServerManager/Resources/reader.xml if your reader
doesn't already support reading series of files.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Thorsten Hater <th at tp1.rub.de> wrote:
> The first question is already answered in another thread, which I believed
> dead already (Question on ...), thank you for clarifying the matter there.
> Actually I'm working with the XML-generated GUI elements.
> The benefits of writing custom Qt-GUI-Panels would the access to the
> whole power of Qt, if I read the documentation correctly?
> Concerning the second matter, this feature would be very convenient indeed,
> yes.
> What about PV's feature of enumerating files of the signature base_X.vti, is
> this applicable to base_X.custom files as well? If so, extending the
> collection
> files type should not be complicated, I image.
> I will file the request, either for the .pvd-file or for both the
> enumeration and
> .pvd feature.
>
>     Thorsten
>
> Utkarsh Ayachit schrieb:
>
> 1) How do I populate GUI-Elements with data read from a file.
>   The ParaView book mentions InformationHelpers but does
>   not explain their usage.
>
>
> Can you elaborate a  bit more on the type of "data" that you want to
> be displayed in the GUI elements? Also, are you planning on writing a
> custom panel for the reader?
>
>
>
>
> 2) Can I use custom files - which I provide a reader for - in
>   pvd-Collection-type XML-files. If yes, how do I do that,
>   the naive idea of simply supplying the filename ends in a
>   SEG-Fault.
>
>
> PVD does not support arbitrary file formats in the collection. It
> certainly would be nice feature, however I am not sure it's going to
> be fairly easy to implement. Feel free to add a feature request at
> http://www.paraview.org/Bug
>
> Utkarsh
>
>