[Paraview] layout question, pvpython

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Attached is a script that demonstrates what I meant. Note, this is just a
workaround and not a graceful solution :).

Utkarsh
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 3:37 PM Sgouros, Thomas <thomas_sgouros at brown.edu>
wrote:

> Alas, indeed. Just as I thought I was starting to understand what's going
on. Was I just misled because there is a trace output that has this in it?

> # get layout
> layout1 = GetLayoutByName("Layout #1")
> # split cell
> layout1.SplitHorizontal(0, 0.5)


> Without layout support, can I use pvpython to present two render views
and link them with a camera link? Can you suggest what direction might
succeed?

> You may have suggested this already, but I'm not sure the hint about
view.GetRenderWindow().SetPosition(x, y) is enough for me. I don't really
get how that's a way forward. What are you suggesting I use that function
to do?

> Thanks,

>   -Tom

> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

>> Tom,

>> Alas, there's no layout support in pvpython. There indeed is a layout
proxy
>> (vtkSMLayoutProxy), but they rely on the Qt ParaView components to layout
>> the windows. The proxy itself is the "model", if you will.  And it works
>> when you execute the layout related updates in the Python shell in the
>> ParaView UI.

>> A clumpsy way to set a window's position in Python is:
>> > view.GetRenderWindow().SetPosition(x, y)

>> You can use that to lay out the windows, short of doing something more
>> elaborate with a GUI library.

>> Utkarsh




>> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 2:34 PM Sgouros, Thomas <thomas_sgouros at brown.edu

>> wrote:

>> > Hi All:

>> > I've become accustomed to throwing around render view objects in
>> pvpython, swapping them in and out of the view with simple.Show() and
>> simple.Hide(). Now I have to learn about layout objects. Can someone
>> suggest the best way to think about these? Are they containers into
which I
>> can drop one or more render views and move them around, or are they more
>> like molds into which I can pour a render view and then use the layout as
>> handles with which to manipulate the views?

>> > Where can I find a list of the methods of a layout object? Or would it
be
>> better to call it a layout proxy?

>> > Thank you,

>> >   -Tom
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