[Paraview] Python usage

[Pat Marion]

Hi John,

For render window interaction via pvpython, see the example script here:

http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2010-June/018059.html

You probably need to update the library name in the 2nd import statement.


As for your 2nd question, it is possible to create a custom ParaView app
(with GUI) from Python, but it takes some setup.  It's not a use case that
is supported with examples and documentation, but if you're clever you can
do it using a python Qt library like PyQt4.  My preferred library is called
PythonQt, with a c++ plugin you can expose much of the ParaView pq api to
python.  I don't have documentation for it, yet, but it's here
(PythonQtPlugin-pv4.0 branch):

https://github.com/patmarion/ParaView/tree/PythonQtPlugin-pv4.0

Pat


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>wrote:

>  I don’t use python much so haven’t really explored the paraview+python
> capabilities, however my tests the other day tell me that****
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> The python interface within paraview is very nice and you can create
> visualizations entirely from script with nice GUI interface thrown in.****
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> If you run a raw python shell and import paraview, the renderviews are not
> interactive, so although you can setup reasonably decent visualizations,
> you can’t ‘play’ with them.****
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> Is there a way of having a pure python interface (i.e. no paraview gui),
> but still keep some of the interactive features that the paraview gui gives
> you (i.e. an event loop for interaction and some other basic functionality)
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> …Is it possible to go further and create a mini paraview entirely in
> python? (I’m not sure what I’m asking for here, but I am curious as to what
> you can do).****
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> Thanks****
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> JB****
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