[Paraview] animation: files, pgmable source

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Randy,

Mind explaining to me what;s your ultimate goal? The way I see it,
there are two options:

1. Provide your users with a state file that they load in ParaView UI
and then use the UI to save animation or images. Use the UI to move
back and forth through the timesteps, etc.
2. Provide your users with a Python script that they run using
pvpython to save out screenshots or animations based on command line
arguments.

Which one are you aiming for? Or is it something else?

Utkarsh



On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Heiland, Randy <heiland at iu.edu> wrote:
> No, no, I’m sure it’s *me* who’s confused.  I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. Are you suggesting keeping the (full) range of timesteps in my script and then, somehow, only render the one of interest? If so, that would be great, except the way things are currently working for me, after loading the .pvsm initially, it renders the first requested tilmestep, but I cannot just enter a desired timestep value into the “Time” widget field. I can only single step through them via the up/down arrow widget.
>
> Not sure if it’s related, but after loading the state file, in the Output Messages, I get the following error/warning, even though it does render the first one properly:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
>   File "<string>", line 34, in RequestInformation
> TypeError: arguments do not match any overloaded methods
> ------- time=  100.0
> fname= /Users/heiland/git/PhysiCell/run2_cancer_immune/output00000100_cells_physicell
> num_cells_possible = 38080
> num_cells = 38080
>
> I’ve attached my Programmable Source Script and Script(RequestInfo), fwiw. Line 34 of RequestInfo is the very last line in that script.
> output.GetInformation().Set(output.DATA_TIME_STEP(), req_time)
>
>
> thanks!
> Randy