Eric, The request does seem reasonable. However, with the upcoming changes to the python API, it will provide better/nicer ways of locating representations irrespective of their names. So the naming issue would probably be redundant.
Utkarsh On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Eric E. Monson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering whether it would be possible or reasonable to have ParaView > match the names of proxies in 'sources' and 'representations'? > > When working from Python, it's easy to get a proxy from 'sources' if you > know its name from the pipeline. The name even changes when you edit it in > the pipeline. In contrast, 'representations' proxies are named > 'DataRepresentation1', 'DataRepresentation2', etc., and to find the proper > proxy I always have iterate through the representation proxies and check for > a match between the proxy from 'sources' and the representation proxy Input. > > Since I don't understand much about all the client/server/proxy stuff, I > don't know if this is a reasonable request, or if it's difficult for PV to > do things internally like change the representation name when the source > name is changed. > > Thanks, > -Eric > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Eric E Monson > Duke Visualization Technology Group > > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
