[vtkusers] How to re-load time information in ExodusIIReader

[Slaughter, Andrew E]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com> wrote:

> You should be able to reload a file through Edit->Reload Files option.
> Note that on Linux F5 is the shortcut for that. The menu should show you
> the proper shortcut on your machine.
>
> How does Paraview handle this? I have tried finding the code in the
paraview ExodusIIReaer but have not been successful tracking this down. I
have not looked for the code for the reload button, can you point me to
where that might be?


> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:19 AM, David Thompson <
> david.thompson at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Does calling Modified() on the reader cause an update? If not, how about
>> calling SetFileName(NULL) and then SetFileName(previousFileName)? Note that
>> the latter will (should, anyway) invalidate the reader's cache, so it is
>> not without a cost.
>>
>> ParaView has had this feature requested (for information to get updated
>> when the file gets changed) before and I don't recall whether something was
>> done to address it or not.
>>
>>         David
>>
>> > On Jan 12, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Slaughter, Andrew E <
>> andrew.slaughter at inl.gov> wrote:
>> >
>> > Is there anyone who can help me with this issue?
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Slaughter, Andrew E <
>> andrew.slaughter at inl.gov> wrote:
>> > I am reading a file that contains 2 timesteps, but is then updated and
>> has an additional timestep. How can a reload the vtkExodusIIReader to get
>> the new time information.
>> >
>> > I attached a python script demonstrating what I am doing, but I will
>> summarize here. My test script has two files (diffusion_1.e and
>> diffusion_2.e that have 2 and 3 timestep respectively). If I create a
>> vtkExodusIIReader and change the filename then I get the correct number.
>> >
>> > But, if I copy the files to a common filename I always get 2, even when
>> the file has changed to have 3 timesteps.
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated,
>> >
>> > Andrew
>> >
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