[Paraview] Trouble with WriteImage()

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

I wouldn't be surprised if 3.6 didn't support writing images from
chart views. The chart view were revamped for 3.8 and included several
fixed including Python improvements.

Utkarsh

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Adriano Gagliardi <agagliardi at ara.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> For some reason, I am getting error messages running a python batch script
> when I try to execute WriteImage on an XYPlotView. I have tried various
> combinations but I get the same error message each time:
>
> paraview version 3.7.0, Date: 2009-10-03
> vtkTecplotReader : [ ...........]
> vtkExtractBlock : [ ...........]
> vtkCompositeDataToUnstructuredGridFilter : [ ...........]
> vtkCutter : [ ...........]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "plot_taubl_data.py", line 40, in ?
>    WriteImage("test.png",XYPlotView)
>  File
> "/raid2/gagliard/Paraview/paraview-3.7.0-ARA-Linux-x86_64/lib/paraview-3.7/p
> araview/simple.py", line 389, in WriteImage
>    view.WriteImage(filename, writer, mag)
>  File
> "/raid2/gagliard/Paraview/paraview-3.7.0-ARA-Linux-x86_64/lib/paraview-3.7/p
> araview/servermanager.py", line 319, in __ConvertArgumentsAndCall
>    retVal = func(*newArgs)
> TypeError: function takes exactly 1 argument (3 given)
>
> The combinations I have tried are:
>
> WriteImage("test.png")
> WriteImage("test.png",Magnificiation=2)
> WriteImage("test.png",XYPlotView,Writer=vtkPNGWriter,Magnification=2)
>
> and I get the same error each time. I get the same error when running the
> script interactively, but I can then proceed to save a screenshot without a
> problem. Am I missing something or is this a bug? I am using
> ParaView-3.6.2-RC2.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adriano
>
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