[Paraview] How to simply "Reload" a data file

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Another approach could be a python macro that invalidate the
"active/selected' proxy in the pipeline, but that one will require the
usage of ParaView in built-in mode.

If interested I can try to write the corresponding python code...

Seb


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Sebastien Jourdain <
sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:

> I forgot to state the obvious, the plugin is a XML one... No code
> involved...
>
> In fact, just having the XML that I wrote in a file extend the UI with a
> button to refresh the reader should be enough.
> Need to figure out why the reader factory did not catch up the hint.
>
> That should be the only thing that you would need.
>
> Seb
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Michael Jackson <
> mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>
>> I was hoping that ParaView just had something built in. I would rather
>> not have to create a plugin and distribute that along side my own software
>> and to keep up on builds for all the various OS's and all of that. i tried
>> that for a while and I just could not keep up.
>>
>> So either I am the only person who has asked for this or there is some
>> over riding reason in the design of ParView why this type of functionality
>> is not in ParaView.
>>
>> Thanks
>> ___________________________________________________________
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>> On Jun 14, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Felipe Bordeu <felipe.bordeu at ec-nantes.fr>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > hi  you can try the approach of Sébastien
>> >
>> > http://perso.uclouvain.be/sebastien.blaise/tools.html
>> >
>> > I haven't tested yet.
>> >
>> > You can save the code as a macro, so you will have a button.
>> >
>> > Felipe
>> >
>> > Le 14/06/2013 09:42, Michael Jackson a écrit :
>> >> Is there button where I can simply reload a data file that was read in
>> >> a pipeline?
>> >>
>> >> We have a workflow where we process data into a file and view it in
>> >> ParaView. it is becoming tedious to blow away the entire pipeline just
>> >> to reload the new data.
>> >>
>> >>  I know about state files but this still requires the user to go to
>> >> the File->Load State... " menu and then select a state file. I would
>> >> like to just select the data file in the Pipeline browser (XDMF File
>> >> reader for us), and just click some button that just reloads data from
>> >> the file.
>> >>
>> >> Or am I just missing something? I am using ParaView 3.98.1. I have to
>> >> admit I have not tried any of the 4.0.RC* downloads.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
>> >> _________________________________________________________
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