[Paraview] Use one statefile for multiple time values

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

FYI: http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=12489

Utkarsh

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> The problem is indeed in the reader. I've attached  a patch for the
> issue. It will be committed into git-master soon.
>
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Eelco van Vliet <eelcovv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Utkarsh,
>>
>> I am using the LegacyVTKReader. Looking at the reader properties I see that
>> indeed the new filename is in the reader object, but still the first file as
>> defined in the state file is used for plotting.
>>
>> Regards
>> Eelco
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:46 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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