[Paraview] time step from within a programmable filter

[Berk Geveci]

This will give you the time value despite the name of the key.

-berk


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>wrote:

> t = inputs[0].GetInformation().Get(vtk.vtkDataObject.DATA_TIME_STEP())
>
>
> or
>
>
> t =
> self.GetInputDataObject(0,0).GetInformation().Get(vtk.vtkDataObject.DATA_TIME_STEP())
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:03 PM, joseph insley <insley at anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Powered by www.kitware.com
>>
>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>>
>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at:
>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView
>>
>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/attachments/20130912/89948cc3/attachment.htm>