[Paraview] Data directory in pvsm files

[Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani]

Thanks guys for the info. That certainly could help. Hope that will appear
in the stable version sometime soon.

Cheers,
Mohamad


On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

> Ian,
>
> That's a good starting point. Here are a couple of issues with the patch:
>
> 1. SetIndicator(..) won't work in client-server mode. We need to be
> smart about this in client-server mode and consolidates the tests to
> avoid performance degradation for  a large number of files.
> 2. Duplication of ResolveEnvironmentVariables()
> 3. Style issues: indentation, missing {} after if (), etc.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> > Ian,
> >
> > That's great! Thanks for pointing it out. I will take a look when I
> > get back to work on Tue and try to get something in.
> >
> > Utkarsh
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Ian Curington <ianc at acm.org> wrote:
> >> Hello Utkarsh, Mohamad,
> >>
> >> Note we have supplied a working patch at:
> >> http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=13092
> >>
> >> which   includes   arbitrary   environment  variable  support in pvsm
> paths:
> >>
> >>      where environment can be reference using syntax of
> >>      %VAR_NAME%, ${VAR_NAME} and $VAR_NAME. In the latest case
> ($VAR_NAME), VAR_NAME must be
> >>      from [a-zA-Z0-9_-]+ language.
> >>
> >> so full absolute paths can be replaced with:
> >>
> >>     <Property name="FileName" id="2875.FileName" number_of_elements="1">
> >>         <Element  index="0" value="${MY_DATA}/interesting_result.vtk"/>
> >>
> >> We are using it in deployed production projects.
> >>
> >> -Ian
> >>
> >> Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 9:32:20 PM, you wrote:
> >>
> >>> It's not possible currently, but I think we should provide some clean
> >>> solution for the next release. Mind reporting  a feature request on
> >>> the bug tracker (can't remember if there's on already)?
> >>
> >>> Utkarsh
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani
> >>> <mmnasr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a simple question.
> >>>> Is it possible to assign an environment variable to define data
> directory in
> >>>> pvsm files?
> >>>> As I save a pvsm file, I see that paraview uses the complete directory
> >>>> address to add files to the pvsm file.
> >>>> I was wondering if there is a way to define that?
> >>>>
> >>>> Or, an alternative question is, is there anyway for paraview just to
> write
> >>>> the file names (and not the corresponding full directory)?
> >>>> That way, we can run the pvsm file in any directory as long as all
> the data
> >>>> files are in the current directory where the pvsm file is stored.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Mohamad
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >> --
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> >>  Ian                            mailto:ianc at acm.org
> >>
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