[Paraview] Using field data as text source?

[David E DeMarle]

Looks like you could do it by writing a plugin that contains a filter
that reads the value and populates a 1x1 vtkTable with the result. The
xml for the filter would have a hint that tells ParaView to display
the output as text.

See http://markmail.org/search/?q=paraview+text+source+utkarsh#query:paraview%20text%20source%20utkarsh+page:2+mid:7o7izbsdglwfhy4s+state:results

Please submit a feature request for this, and if enough people vote
for it I'm sure we can make it a standard feature in 4.0.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Mark S. Bentley <mark at lunartech.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using ParaView to view discrete element model data, imported as a
> time series of legacy VTK files. I've just added field data to the output
> data so that I have per-timestep global data (e.g. thermal energy of the
> system, number of particles etc.). This loads into ParaView fine alongside
> by particle data.
>
> Now I would like to write this out to the screen as text during animations,
> but can't figure out a way to do it - can the text source not use a Field
> Data variable as its source? Is there something I'm missing, or should I hit
> python?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
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