[Paraview] File in pipeline browser has changed; best way to reload

Fri May 29 14:05:28 EDT 2015

Michael & Christian,

Thanks for your emails. I've been doing some other things, but am 
returning to this question. Michael, I am attempting to use the solution 
you proposed: 
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2013-June/028596.html

However, when I try to adapt this to use ExodusII instead of Xdmf, I 
crash Paraview. I copied the code from the above link, and simply 
replaced 'Xdmf' with 'ExodusII'. When I try to load my xml file into 
paraview using the plug-in manager, that's when I cause the crash. I've 
successfully loaded the plugin in its un-modified form (e.g. the Xdmf 
form), so I must not be modifying the code correctly. I'm sure it's 
something exceedingly simple (I've tried replacing 
class=vtkExodusIIReader with class=vtkExodusReader for example), but I 
don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Here is my code:

<ParaViewPlugin>
<ServerManagerConfiguration>
   <ProxyGroup name="sources">
<SourceProxy name="EXODUSRrefresh" base_proxygroup="sources"
base_proxyname="ExodusIIReader" class="vtkExodusIIReader">
       <Property name="Refresh" command="Modified"
panel_widget="command_button"/>
       <Hints>
         <ReaderFactory extensions="e" file_description="ExodusII Reader
(Refresh button)" />
       </Hints>
     </SourceProxy>
   </ProxyGroup>
   </ServerManagerConfiguration>
   <ParaViewReaders>
     <Reader name="ReaderWithButton" />
   </ParaViewReaders>
</ParaViewPlugin>

Any help from anyone would be appreciated!

Alex

On 05/05/2015 01:07 AM, Schlottke, Michael wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> there is a thread from around 2 years ago that proposed a couple of 
> solutions. Especially if you are using a custom reader plugin this 
> provides for a clean and user-friendly approach:
>
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2013-June/028588.html
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2013-June/028596.html (this 
> is the solution we use)
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
>> On 05 May 2015, at 09:12 , Christian Richter 
>> <christian.richter at ovgu.de <mailto:christian.richter at ovgu.de>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> I'm using a little python macro to refresh the fileNames Property of 
>> all readers in the Pipeline. It is located here:
>> https://github.com/richti83/ParaView_Reader_for_LIGGGHTS/blob/master/python_macros/update.py
>>
>> Feel free to use this as a starting point.
>>
>> Best,
>> Christian.
>>
>> Am 5/5/2015 um 12:08 AM schrieb Alex Lindsay:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am doing something that most other modellers do: I am visualizing 
>>> a file in my pipeline browser, but I ran a new simulation and now 
>>> the file I am viewing should have changed. What is the best way to 
>>> reload the file/get the new data from the file? So far my google 
>>> searches have yielded this 
>>> <http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam-paraview/78129-update-data-paraview.html#post446239> 
>>> as the best result, but it seems quite clumsy.
>>>
>>> I've seen in other places people recommend clicking on "update gui", 
>>> but I don't see that button available anywhere in my version of 
>>> paraview.
>>>
>>> Refresh times also doesn't seem to work.
>>>
>>> As you can tell, I'm a new paraview user!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>>
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