Looks like you could do it by writing a plugin that contains a filter that reads the value and populates a 1x1 vtkTable with the result. The xml for the filter would have a hint that tells ParaView to display the output as text.
See http://markmail.org/search/?q=paraview+text+source+utkarsh#query:paraview%20text%20source%20utkarsh+page:2+mid:7o7izbsdglwfhy4s+state:results Please submit a feature request for this, and if enough people vote for it I'm sure we can make it a standard feature in 4.0. David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 21 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-881-4909 On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Mark S. Bentley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using ParaView to view discrete element model data, imported as a > time series of legacy VTK files. I've just added field data to the output > data so that I have per-timestep global data (e.g. thermal energy of the > system, number of particles etc.). This loads into ParaView fine alongside > by particle data. > > Now I would like to write this out to the screen as text during animations, > but can't figure out a way to do it - can the text source not use a Field > Data variable as its source? Is there something I'm missing, or should I hit > python? > > Regards, > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > 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
