[Paraview] Trace?

[David E DeMarle]

> Is saving/writing a file part of what Trace is to record? (I used Save
> Data.)

Correct.

Add a call to WriteImage(filename.png) to dump an png.

Add this to your reading list:
http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting

And make liberal use of help() and tab completion in the python shell
within the Paraview GUI as you learn.

>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:44 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Please keep the discussion on the mailing list so everyone can benefit.
>>
>> > The upshot: Is there a way to use this .py file either in an executable,
>> > or
>> > between executables?
>>
>> Python is a particularly good glue language.
>>
>> You can have you scripts/programs call "pvbatch yourscript.py" and/or
>> call arbitrary scripts/executables from within yourscript.py.
>>
>> For examples of how to call out from python see:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/89228/calling-an-external-command-in-python
>>
>> > Once I get that going, I can generate a version of the .py file
>> > appropriate
>> > for each sim. I assume
>> > that can be refined to using filenames as arguments as I get off of my
>> > knuckles.
>>
>> For examples of command line argument access in python see:
>>   http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_command_line_arguments.htm
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