[Paraview] Automatic connect to Catalyst

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Thanks for reporting, Arno.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Arno Mayrhofer
<arno.mayrhofer at dcs-computing.com> wrote:
> Utkarsh,
>
> thanks for your reply. As you suggested I opened the following issue on your
> gitlab page:
>
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17037
>
> Unfortunately I do not have time to devote to resolving this issue myself
> currently. Whether or not that will change is unclear at the moment.
>
> Thanks,
> Arno
>
>
>
>>> I tried to generate a PV Python script using the trace option, but it did
>>> not show me any output related to connecting to the Catalyst simulation.
>>> Is
>>> it at all possible to do this via a Python script?
>>
>> Not currently, I am afraid. The connect-to-live functionality is
>> currently not exposed to Python and hence not scriptable or accessible
>> via Python API alone.
>>
>>> I also have not found any command line options that would allow me to
>>> connect to a certain Catalyst port, did I miss something here?
>>
>> Correct, they don't exist either. Feel free to add a feature request
>> for the case or put together a merge-request to add support for this.