<div dir="ltr">There is a way if you are willing to create your own Plugin for the reader that you are using.<div><br></div><div style>The XML should look like that</div><div style><br></div><div style><div><ServerManagerConfiguration></div>
<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span><ProxyGroup name="sources"></div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span><SourceProxy name="ReaderWithButton" base_proxygroup="sources" base_proxyname="LegacyVTKFileReader"></div>
<div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Property name="Refresh" command="Modified" panel_widget="command_button"/></div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Hints></div>
<div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span><ReaderFactory extensions="vtr" file_description="Refresh (Legacy VTK files)" /></div><div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Hints></div>
<div> <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span></SourceProxy></div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span></ProxyGroup></div><div></ServerManagerConfiguration></div><div><br>
</div><div style>Unfortunately the hints/ReaderFactory didn't properly worked which prevent its usage from a simple XML file, but if you register it as a real plugin with the XML-GUI one, you should be fine with the OpenFile dialog.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>The remaining thing for you would be to figure out the proxyname of the reader that you are willing to extend.</div><div style><br></div><div style>If you don't mind using python to create the reader, then you can do something like that in the python shell.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>> r = ReaderWithButton(FileNames='/.../ParaViewData/Data/cone.vtr')<br></div><div style>> Show()</div><div style>> Render()</div><div style><br></div><div style>Seb</div><div style>
<br></div></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Cory Quammen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cquammen@cs.unc.edu" target="_blank">cquammen@cs.unc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I would love to know how to do this if it is possible. For one of our<br>
workflows, a periodic checking if an input file has changed and<br>
reloading it at a specified time interval would be even better.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Cory<br>
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Michael Jackson<br>
<<a href="mailto:mike.jackson@bluequartz.net">mike.jackson@bluequartz.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Is there button where I can simply reload a data file that was read in<br>
> a pipeline?<br>
><br>
> We have a workflow where we process data into a file and view it in<br>
> ParaView. it is becoming tedious to blow away the entire pipeline just<br>
> to reload the new data.<br>
><br>
> I know about state files but this still requires the user to go to<br>
> the File->Load State... " menu and then select a state file. I would<br>
> like to just select the data file in the Pipeline browser (XDMF File<br>
> reader for us), and just click some button that just reloads data from<br>
> the file.<br>
><br>
> Or am I just missing something? I am using ParaView 3.98.1. I have to<br>
> admit I have not tried any of the 4.0.RC* downloads.<br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
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