[Paraview] Bad reader names in paraview.simple (Was: using with python to read file VTK in 3.4 and 3.5)

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at kitware.com
Sun May 24 10:51:51 EDT 2009


These issues should be fixed. I made a pass over the XML labels (which
are now used by the simple and servermanager modules). I will send out
a separate e-mail on the Python changes in 3.5 and 3.6.

-berk


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> Berk,
>
> Looking at readers.xml I see that the STL reader is overriding the STL
> reader because it has the wrong label.  Could you fix this please (and make
> sure it gets to the 3.6 branch)?
>
> Also, the capitalization of the readers is weird.  It is LegacyVTKreader,
> but shouldn’t it be LegacyVTKReader?  It seem wrong not to have “reader”
> capitalized don’t you think?  This naming is pervasive on many readers.
>
> -Ken
>
> On 5/20/09 4:32 AM, "BOUSSOIR Jonathan 167706" <Jonathan.BOUSSOIR at cea.fr>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to paraview, I am using Linux and Paraview 3.4 or/and 3.5. I have 4
> questions (with two themes) when I would like reading a file VTK.
>
> - I have made a sphere (surface) with Paraview and saved in a file .VTK
> With python and paraview 3.4, I can read and see the file.
>         from paraview.servermanager import *
>         connection = servermanager.Connect('localhost')
>         reader =
> servermanager.sources.LegacyVTKFileReader(FileNames='sphere.vtk')
>         view = servermanager.CreateRenderView()
>         rep = servermanager.CreateRepresentation(reader, view)
>         view.ResetCamera()
>         view.StillRender()
>
> With paraview 3.5, I can read but not see.
>         I have changed "from paraview.servermanager import *" by "from
> paraview.simple import *"
>         and "servermanager.sources.LegacyVTKFileReader" by
> "servermanager.sources.LegacyVTKreader"
>
>
> - I have made a wavelet (volume) with Paraview and saved in a file .VTK
> With python and paraview 3.4, I can read and can't see.
> I have tried to add "rep.Representation = 4" to see with the volume, but I
> have a error "Cell scalars not supported, Segmentation error" when I excute
> the line with "view.StillRender()"
>
> With python and paraview 3.5, I had already a error "Segmentation error"
> when I read the file. And I don't know how I must do to have the
> representation with volume.
>
>
> I have done with a file simple to do the examples because I'll have another
> file VTK to read like that.
> Thanks in advance for your kind help.
>
> Regards,
> Jona
>
>
>
>
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