[Paraview] PV3: Animation from legacy VTK timewise files

[Kent Eschenberg]

Can a user-written reader populate the time dialog?

I maintain several custom readers for file formats that have all the 
times embedded in the files, invisible to PV, or that use file name 
patterns that are not recognized.

Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Berk Geveci wrote:
> This is already in the CVS ParaView. I will write a wiki page but to
> summarize, ParaView automatically detects certain patterns (foo_1.vtk,
> foo_2.vtk, foo1.vtk, foo2vtk etc) and groups them together in the file
> dialog. If you select the whole group, it is opened as a file series.
> You can then animate  and treat the VTK reader like any other time
> aware reader. For now, this works for legacy vtk files only.
> 
> -berk