[Paraview] Script driven paraview

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

You can use the "--script" command line argument to "paraview"
executable to run a Python script after startup e,g,
> paraview --script=show_vtu.py

Utkarsh

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Timothy Cale <drtsc.para at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to display a set of meshes that result from a (bash) script
> driven set of simulations
> and meshing steps.
>
> I have written a script that does what I want (at least basically), if I
> manually go into the paraview
> gui and start the (Tools -->) Python Shell, then hit run script and select
> the desired script.
>
> In an attempt to automate the visialization, I wrote a bash script with the
> two relevant lines being:
>
> paraview &>/dev/null &
> pvpython show_vtu.py
>
> This generates non-persistent, non-interactive images that I expect - though
> it would be good
> to know if there is a way to make such images persistent and interactive.
> (in addition to
> starting paraview)
>
> Question:  Is there a way to use such a script (bash, python called from
> bash . . . ) to
> start paraview, and use a script to visualize data in the gui?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
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