The xml for the vtkFileSeriesReader should have the following:<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>&lt;FileSeriesReaderProxy name=&quot;MyFileSeriesReader&quot; ...&gt;<br>
<br><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">  </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> &lt;StringVectorProperty name=&quot;FileNameInfo&quot;<br>
        command=&quot;GetCurrentFileName&quot;<br>        information_only=&quot;1&quot; &gt;<br>        &lt;SimpleStringInformationHelper /&gt;<br>     &lt;/StringVectorProperty&gt;</span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br>
</span><br>     &lt;StringVectorProperty name=&quot;FileName&quot;<br>                           ...<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">                           </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">information_property=&quot;FileNameInfo&quot;</span></i></b><br>
                           ...&gt;<br>       &lt;FileListDomain name=&quot;files&quot;/&gt;<br>     &lt;/StringVectorProperty&gt;<br>     ...<br>&lt;/FileSeriesReaderProxy&gt;<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<div>
<br>Utkarsh<br><div><br><br>On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Karl König &lt;<a href="mailto:kkoenig11@web.de">kkoenig11@web.de</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt; Hi,<br>&gt;<br>&gt; What method/xml does a custom reader using vtkFileSeriesReader need to<br>
&gt; provide in order to see the file name change in the information tab of<br>&gt; the object inspector? The reader posted in<br>&gt; <a href="http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2009-September/013719.html">http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2009-September/013719.html</a>,<br>
&gt; e.g., does always show the name of the first file of the sequence.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; For *.vtu files, the file name does change, but I failed so far to find<br>&gt; the magic in VTK/IO/vtkXML*Reader.{h,cxx}<br>&gt;<br>
&gt; Thanks a lot<br>&gt; Karl<br>&gt; _______________________________________________<br>&gt; Powered by <a href="http://www.kitware.com">www.kitware.com</a><br>&gt;<br>&gt; Visit other Kitware open-source projects at <a href="http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html">http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html</a><br>
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