[Paraview] time step from within a programmable filter

[joseph insley]

Hi, all,

I believe there must be a way to do this, but thus far all of my attempts have been unsuccessful.  I have a programmable filter which calculates a new scalar field, which I then would like to write some information about to a file.  This much I have working successfully. I would now like to animate through a time series, applying this filter, and writing out a separate file for each time step.  So, from within this programmable filter I'd like to get the current time step (either the index or the actual time value, or perhaps the file name of the current step, any of these would work) in order to generate filenames that map back to the original data.  Any advice on how to do this would be appreciated.

Thanks,
joe