[Paraview] Use one statefile for multiple time values

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

That's odd. What type of reader is this? It's possible that the reader
has issues with changing the filename once it's set or something like
that.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Eelco van Vliet <eelcovv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello paraviewers,
>
> According to the information I found here
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Batch_Processing (bottom page)
> it should be able to Load a state file and then to change the file name to
> apply the same state on  multi files (for making an animation for instance)
>
> sm=servermanager
> sm.Connect()
>
> sm.LoadState(opt.statefile)
> view=GetRenderViews()[0]
> cnt=0
> for time in timesteps:
>    ts=[]
>    ts.append(filelist[cnt])
>    reader.FileNames = ts
>    reader.FileNameChanged()
>    reader.UpdatePipeline()
>
>   format="%%s/%%s/%%s/%%s_t%s%%s" % (opt.timeformat)
>   jpgfile=format %
> (path,opt.casedir,opt.outputdir,opt.imbase,float(time),jpgext)
>   view.ResetCamera()
>   view.StillRender()
>   view.WriteImage(jpgfile,"vtkPNGWriter",1)
>   cnt=cnt+1
>
> However, the scrips keeps showing only the data associate with the first
> file in the state file. If I print the properties of the reader with
>  for i in dir(reader):
>       print "reader.%s = %s" % (i,getattr(reader,i))
> I can see that in the reader object the filename indeed has change, but the
> change are not reflected to the newly rendered image. I seems that
> UpdatePipe() does not work.
> Does anybody sees what goes wrong and how I can fix this ?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Regards
>
> Eelco
>
>
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