[Paraview] Python - load state just like when using the GUI

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Here's the bug report, FYI: http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=12549

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> Good catch. That's actually a bug in the simply.py module. I'm
> committing a fix, it will be included in the upcoming 3.12 release.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Tim Gallagher
> <tim.gallagher at gatech.edu> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> So I did some more digging. It turns out the instructions on the wiki at:
>>
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting#Loading_State_and_Manipulating_It
>>
>> is wrong. If you follow those steps, you just get a black image with nothing in it. However, I found a presentation at:
>>
>> http://www.vgtc.org/PDF/slides/2008/visweek/tutorial6_ayachit_python.pdf
>>
>> with the correct steps. To load the state file correctly, one must do:
>>
>> from paraview.simple import *
>> servermanager.LoadState(filename)
>> view = servermanager.GetRenderView()
>> view.StillRender()
>>
>> I've requested an account on the wiki so I can make the change to the page (assuming as a new user I can... if not, can somebody update the information?)
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tim Gallagher" <tim.gallagher at gatech.edu>
>> To: "ParaView list" <paraview at paraview.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:48:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Python - load state just like when using the GUI
>>
>> We actually just tried to do the same thing for the first time yesterday and had the same issues... so if anybody has an answer, we'd like it too!
>>
>> Is it just a matter of accessing some kind of data pulled in from the state file and doing a Show() or something? I got the data to appear that way (SelectActiveSource(); Show()), but the views aren't right.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Villads Egede" <s052397 at student.dtu.dk>
>> To: paraview at paraview.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:11:40 PM
>> Subject: [Paraview] Python - load state just like when using the GUI
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I'm fairly new to Paraview but am trying to get a hang on it.
>>
>> My problem is that I need to make some animations by loading different
>> datasets rendered the same way. After having looked at the state file
>> (pvsm) one can save in the GUI I thought it would be piece of cake to
>> open these ones via a Python script and then save a screenshot from
>> there (thus being able to replace the path to the dataset and then being
>> able to create the animation), but when I do that, all the view settings
>> are not loaded in contrast to when I do it through the GUI. Is there a
>> way to "execute" the settings from the state?
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Villads Egede, Denmark
>>
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