[Paraview] loading multiple state-files without hiding and resetting already loaded objects

[Grothausmann, Roman Dr.]

Dear Cory,

Many thanks for Your quick reply.
On 15/09/17 15:14, Cory Quammen wrote:
> Put a ** in front of reppro[i], e.g.,
>
> pvs.SetProperties(repr, **reppro[i])
>
> That works for me.
Hm, I now get:
TypeError: SetProperties() argument after ** must be a mapping, not list
Do I have to store the dict of object properties in another dict instead of a list?

Best
Roman

>> On 07/09/17 23:37, Cory Quammen wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Roman,
>>>
>>> It turns out ParaView was not designed for this use case because of
>>> certain difficulties discussed here:
>>>
>>> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17442
>>>
>>> In your Python script, you could manually cash all the properties of
>>> the existing representations and restore them after loading the most
>>> recent state file.
>>>
>>> The functions
>>>
>>> reprs = GetRepresentations()
>>> repr = reprs.values()[0]
>>> props = repr.ListProperties()
>>> GetProperty(repr, props[0])
>>>
>>> would be helpful for this.
>>>
>>> Cory
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Grothausmann, Roman Dr.
>>> <grothausmann.roman at mh-hannover.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear mailing list members,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It seems that PV (and paraview.simple.LoadState) by default hides already
>>>> loaded objects (and resets e.g. their coloring) when another state-file
>>>> is
>>>> loaded.
>>>> Is there a way to load multiple state-files after one another without
>>>> hiding
>>>> and resetting already existent objects? I.e. a way to concatenate
>>>> multiple
>>>> state-files and leave their objects in the state as they got loaded (e.g.
>>>> colored, hidden/visible)?
>>>> I do understand that loading a new state-file will reset the camera, but
>>>> not
>>>> the rest.
>>>> Here's my initial attempt to achieve this with pvpython:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/romangrothausmann/ParaView_scripts/blob/90eb4ca8499070bed941d50b89ebea82fd6a9e23/pvsm-multi.py
>>>>
>>>> Any help or hints are very much appreciated
>>>> Roman
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Roman Grothausmann
>>>>
>>>> Tomographie und Digitale Bildverarbeitung
>>>> Tomography and Digital Image Analysis
>>>>
>>>> Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
>>>> Institut für Funktionelle und Angewandte Anatomie
>>>> OE 4120, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Deutschland
>>>>
>>>> Tel. +49 511 532-2900
>>>> grothausmann.roman at mh-hannover.de
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>>
>> --
>> Dr. Roman Grothausmann
>>
>> Tomographie und Digitale Bildverarbeitung
>> Tomography and Digital Image Analysis
>>
>> Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
>> Institut für Funktionelle und Angewandte Anatomie
>> OE 4120, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Deutschland
>>
>> Tel. +49 511 532-2900
>> grothausmann.roman at mh-hannover.de
>> http://www.mh-hannover.de/anatomie.html
>
>
>

-- 
Dr. Roman Grothausmann

Tomographie und Digitale Bildverarbeitung
Tomography and Digital Image Analysis

Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Institut für Funktionelle und Angewandte Anatomie
OE 4120, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Deutschland

Tel. +49 511 532-2900
grothausmann.roman at mh-hannover.de
http://www.mh-hannover.de/anatomie.html