[Paraview] Displaying a value on top of an animation

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

You can change your filter (or add a new one) that outputs a vtkTable
with a single row and column of  a string containing the text you want
to show (look at vtkTimeToTextConvertor) and then in the XML for the
filter add the following hint (same as the "TimeToTextConvertor" in
Servers/ServerManagers/Resources/filters.xml). Now when you apply this
filter, ParaView will display the result as a text in the 3D window.

 <Hints>
       <OutputPort name="Output-0" index="0" type="text" />
</Hints>

Utkarsh

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Matthew Cragun <mcragun at totalsim.us> wrote:
> I have an animation of a filling tank.  I have an integration filter to get
> the volume at a particular time-step.  Is there a way to display this number
> on the animation so that it updates?  I'm thinking of something similar to
> the annotate time filter but that I can use a custom field with, such as
> volume or avg fluid velocity.
> Thanks in advance.
>
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