[Paraview] Catalyst session makes ParaView time-unaware

[iusadhfoias sidufasipudf]

Is this only a problem on my side, that I cannot step through the times of
a file series after a Catalyst live session has finished?
Looking forward to either positive or negative feedback

Many thanks,
Jussuf

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 7:13 PM, iusadhfoias sidufasipudf <
asduifhssauidf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can somebody explain this problem:
>
> When I connect ParaView to a Catalyst live session (running "cd
> Examples/Catalyst/PythonFullExample; pvpython fedriver.py cpscript.py")
> and open a "somedata.pvd" file containing a time series, I cannot scroll
> through the time steps in the file, because ParaView time is reset to 0 and
> no other time steps are available, even if they were available before
> establishing the Catalyst connection. The problem remains even after the
> Catalyst session has finished and ParaView has disconnected from Catalyst:
>  the VCR controls including the  "Time: 0 | 0 ^v" display are disabled
> (grey).
>
> I am using ParaView 5.5.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 Linux.
> In cpscript.py, I have enabled live visualization:
> ...
> # Enable Live-Visualizaton with ParaView
> coprocessor.EnableLiveVisualization(True, 1)
>
> I could understand if ParaView's "time" concept doesn't make sense during
> a live visualization. Nonetheless, I'd prefer if the live visualization
> forwards its current time to ParaView that should use this time as its
> latest timestep. Or ParaView should keep its time steps and let the live
> visualization run independent from those time steps.
> But in no situation should ParaView keep its time controls disabled even
> after it has disconnected from Catalyst.
>
> Can you reproduce this problem? Can it be fixed?
>
> Many thanks,
> Jussuf
>
>
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