Hi,<div><br></div><div>I followed this documentation to generate animations of data read in via my custom plugin reader: </div><div><a href="http://paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series">http://paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I can now animate over files named foo1.hdf, foo2.hdf, ..., fooN.hdf. However, many of our data files are named by date and time (Year-Month-Day-Hour-Minute-Second). ParaView's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">FileSeriesReaderProxy doesn't seem to recognize the following files as an animatable data set:</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">foo_1995-03-21T00-00-00.hdf</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><meta charset="utf-8">foo_1995-03-21T01-00-00.hdf</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">...</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><meta charset="utf-8">foo_1995-03-21T23-00-00.hdf</span></font></div>
<meta charset="utf-8"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">foo_1995-03-22T00-00-00.hdf</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">... etc.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Can you suggest a way to extend Paraview/FileSeriesReaderProxy to step through files by date & time rather than by integers in a filename?</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Thanks,<br>
Pete</span></font></div><meta charset="utf-8">