[Paraview] Texture images paths not handled correctly with Search Files under Specified Directory

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Venke,

A fix is here:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/merge_requests/2475

It should make it into 5.6 planned for August/Sept.

Utkarsh
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 9:23 AM Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Venke,

> You script to load the textures is indeed fine. The issue with with the
> state loading implementation. There indeed is a bug where it doesn't
handle
> texture sources.

> I've reported an issue here:
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18188

> Utkarsh
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 5:00 AM <postgurke at web.de> wrote:

> > Hello

> > I have a problem with texture images in my state file when using the
> option "Search Files under Specified Directory" in the Load State dialog.
> It seems that ParaView changes all paths in the state file to the
specified
> directory except for those of the images. Probably this has to do with the
> way I import the images to the texture planes: to be able to keep the
> texture images saved in a state file, I do the following:

> > rv1=GetActiveViewOrCreate('RenderView')
> > profile=XMLPolyDataReader(FileName=['C:\\myproject\\Profile.vtp'])
> > pathToTextureImage='C:\\myproject\\Image.jpg'
> > Display=Show(profile, view=rv1)
> > Display=GetDisplayProperties(profile)
> > Display.SetRepresentationType('Surface')
> > texProxy = servermanager.CreateProxy('textures','ImageTexture')
> > texProxy.GetProperty('FileName').SetElement(0, pathToTextureImage)
> > texProxy.UpdateVTKObjects()
> > servermanager.Register(texProxy, registrationName='Profile_with_image')
> > profile.UpdateVTKObjects()

> > Maybe this is not the way to go anymore with PV 5.5? The "Search Files
> under Specified Directory" is very handy for sharing PV states, so if
> anyone could tell me what I should do in order to have the texture images
> handled correctly, I would be very grateful.

> > Cheers,
> > Venke
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