[Paraview] Time-Varying Input Sources

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Did you add the special TimestepValues property to the reader's server
manager XML definition?

     <DoubleVectorProperty name="TimestepValues"
                           repeatable="1"
                           information_only="1">
       <TimeStepsInformationHelper/>
       <Documentation>
         Available timestep values.
       </Documentation>
     </DoubleVectorProperty>

-Ken


On 9/29/08 9:38 AM, "Randall Hand" <randall.hand at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've written a VTK File Reader that supports multiple timesteps (48 in my
> tests).  But when I load the data, it shows me no timestep data in the
> properties panel, and the time increment thing at the top toolbar is greyed
> out.  However, if I use the Animation tools to animate from timestep0 to 47 in
> 48 steps, it properly animates through time.
>
> What am I doing wrong?  My RequestInformation (where I think this information
> comes from) is shown below:
>
> //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> int vtkAdhfaNetwork::RequestInformation(
>   vtkInformation* reqInfo,
>   vtkInformationVector** inVector,
>   vtkInformationVector* outVector
>   )
> {
>   if(!this->Superclass::RequestInformation(reqInfo,inVector,outVector))
>     {
>     return 0;
>     }
>
>   vtkInformation *info=outVector->GetInformationObject(0);
>   double tRange[2];
>   tRange[0] = this->Steps[0];
>   tRange[1] = this->Steps[this->NumSteps-1];
>   info->Set(
>     vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::TIME_RANGE(),
>     tRange,
>     2);
>   info->Set(
>     vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::TIME_STEPS(),
>     this->Steps,
>     this->NumSteps);
>   return 1;
> }
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Randall Hand
> Visualization Scientist
> ERDC MSRC-ITL


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