[Paraview] Automatically updating time variable dataset

[Mathieu Westphal]

Hello

A work around would be to declare two (fake) timestep in your reader and
play the animation in loop in paraview.

Regards,

Mathieu Westphal

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 12:51 PM, corinna reuter <corinnareuter75 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A question to the specialists:
> Can Paraview refresh its view automatically when a dataset updates its
> state?
>
> A plugin starts a background thread that calculates new dataset values
> periodically. Each time a calculation step is finished, all filters and
> views connected to the generated dataset should be updated. (Something
> similar is done in a live catalyst connection. But catalyst has a serious
> drawback for large datasets. It runs in a separate process, so that the
> datasets cannot be in shared memory, but have to be transferred, requiring
> redundant storage space and wasted network bandwidth.) Although paraview is
> said to be not thread safe, it should't be problematic as long as access to
> VTK classes is limited to the main thread. The difficult question is, how
> can paraview be notified that a plugin has updated its output while the
> main thread only waits for GUI or network events when idle?
>
> Any ideas or recommendations?
> Conny
>
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