Dennis,
The Python/ Programmable filter is a black box to me (i.e., I won't be much 
additional help).  However, the place i would start would be the new, 
super-duper ParaView Guide.  Kitware - and especially Utkarsh - have done a 
great job on it.

Rather than giving the link, here is how to find it.  It is sold in paper form 
on Amazon, and also is available as a .pdf for free (lacking 3 chapters, not 
related to the python filter).

paraview.org/ Resources/ ParaView Guide.  This includes the link to the .pdf.  
You are interested in (at least) chapter 13.  It is listed under master section 
II, Reference Manual.


Alan

From: ParaView [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis 
Conklin
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 11:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Idiot's Guide to Programmable Filter

All,

I'm a little confused by what objects are inside a programmable filter.    I 
have a multi-block EXODUS dataset.    When I read this in it is a Exodus2Reader 
object (sp?) and I can access the blocks, pointdata, celldata, etc in a python 
script.

Once I get inside the Programmable filter, the  blocks of the input[] seem to 
have different member functions than they did in a Python script.   So I can't 
figure out  how to get connectivity,   number of cells in a block, generate new 
cell variables, etc.

So, if I'm in a Programmable Filter, what object do I look at in either the 
Paraview or VTK class libraries to understand what the properties of the block 
are?

Thanks very much for any insight you can give.

Dennis
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