[Paraview] Disabling auto-drawing in ParaView

[David E DeMarle]

The streaming paraview application does this via a big hack. See
specifically pqCustomDisplayPolicy::getHideByDefault(). I plan to
expose this via a branded app behavior shortly.

David E DeMarle
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> You can very easily achieve the same effect by applying the filters
> using the python shell. Until you call Show(), the data for that
> filter won't be shown in the render view.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Adriano Gagliardi <agagliardi at ara.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. Yeah, the custom filter route is an option, but I was
>> hoping that there would be a switch or at least a piece of code that could
>> be hacked to allow this to happen. I'll investigate further when I get a
>> chance.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Adriano
>>
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric E. Monson [mailto:emonson at cs.duke.edu]
>> Sent: 25 November 2009 15:22
>> To: agagliardi at ara.co.uk
>> Cc: 'paraview List'
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Disabling auto-drawing in ParaView
>>
>> Hey Adriano,
>>
>> I don't think ParaView is built to do this, although I can see where it
>> would be a very useful feature for some applications (I think this is the
>> standard behavior in LLNL's VisIt).
>>
>> As a workaround, if your three filters are always the same you can combine
>> them into a Custom Filter, exposing the parameters you need to adjust each
>> time. This allows you to set up the pipeline for all three filters (inside
>> the custom filter black box) and only update when you hit Apply at the end.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Eric E Monson
>> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>>
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2009, at 6:15 AM, Adriano Gagliardi wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to disable auto-drawing of data in ParaView after a
>>> filter is applied? For example, I'd like to apply 3 filters, one after
>>> the other, but I only want to see the result presented in the render
>>> window after the last one has been applied. At the moment, after each
>>> filter is run, it auto-redraws it on screen and can get a bit
>>> annoying.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Adriano
>>>
>>> ===================================
>>>
>>> Adriano Gagliardi MEng PhD
>>> Project Scientist
>>> Computational Aerodynamics
>>> Aircraft Research Association Ltd.
>>> Manton Lane
>>> Bedford
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>>> E-mail: agagliardi at ara.co.uk
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