[Paraview] [Fwd: zoom and rotate in script]

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Try using time.sleep (from Python module "time") to slow things down

Utkarsh

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Xueli Wang <wang at knmi.nl> wrote:
> Hello Utkarsh:
>
> Thanks a lot for your reply. I have made some progress in using ParaView. I
> have now a script to make zoom in and zoom out of the view. But it is too
> quick.  I can't control the speed of the process. I would like to have a
> script that shows this zoom in and out slowly just like what we see on the
> television. Do you know how to do it?
> By the way I got these scripts by using the "Python shell" trace to record
> what I did by mouse click and so...
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Xueli Wang
>
> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>
>> Yes, the following link points to the section regarding how to get
>> access to the camera:
>>
>> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting#Representations_and_Views
>>
>> Once you have the camera, you can use the vtkCamera API to zoom or do
>> whatever (http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkCamera.html)
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Xueli Wang <wang at knmi.nl> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm a new user of ParaView. One thing I wonder is whether is it possible
>>> to
>>> write Python scripts to zoom in and zoom out and rotate of the active
>>> object
>>> in the  render window. My aim is to make a movie of a globe, the global
>>> can
>>> be zoomed in and out and rotate in a controlled manner.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Xueli Wang
>>>
>>>
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