David: Thanks. I do indeed have a lot of learning potential.
WRT Trace: You indicate that Trace should record a save action? I am not sure why Trace (the way I used it) did not record the Save Data action during my GUI session. What should I do to get Trace to record that action? Regards, Tim On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:04 AM, David E DeMarle <[email protected]>wrote: > > Is saving/writing a file part of what Trace is to record? (I used Save > > Data.) > > Correct. > > Add a call to WriteImage(filename.png) to dump an png. > > Add this to your reading list: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting > > And make liberal use of help() and tab completion in the python shell > within the Paraview GUI as you learn. > > > > > Thanks, > > Tim > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:44 AM, David E DeMarle < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Please keep the discussion on the mailing list so everyone can benefit. > >> > >> > The upshot: Is there a way to use this .py file either in an > executable, > >> > or > >> > between executables? > >> > >> Python is a particularly good glue language. > >> > >> You can have you scripts/programs call "pvbatch yourscript.py" and/or > >> call arbitrary scripts/executables from within yourscript.py. > >> > >> For examples of how to call out from python see: > >> > >> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/89228/calling-an-external-command-in-python > >> > >> > Once I get that going, I can generate a version of the .py file > >> > appropriate > >> > for each sim. I assume > >> > that can be refined to using filenames as arguments as I get off of my > >> > knuckles. > >> > >> For examples of command line argument access in python see: > >> > http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_command_line_arguments.htm > > > > >
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