[Paraview] Better names for 'representations' ?

[Eric E. Monson]

Hey Guys,

That sounds fine. I'll be happy as long as there is a slightly  
easier / more transparent way of identifying the representation once  
you know the view and source.

Thanks,
-Eric


On Mar 12, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Berk Geveci wrote:

> I agree with Utkarsh. Since the user interface hides the
> representation objects from the user, the appropriate interface for
> getting representations should take (view, source) as the argument.
> Views on the other hand should probably be named so that it is easy to
> match Python names to something in the GUI.
>
> -berk
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Eric,
>>
>> The request does seem reasonable. However, with the upcoming changes
>> to the python API, it will provide better/nicer ways of locating
>> representations irrespective of their names. So the naming issue  
>> would
>> probably be redundant.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Eric E. Monson  
>> <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am wondering whether it would be possible or reasonable to have  
>>> ParaView
>>> match the names of proxies in 'sources' and 'representations'?
>>>
>>> When working from Python, it's easy to get a proxy from 'sources'  
>>> if you
>>> know its name from the pipeline. The name even changes when you  
>>> edit it in
>>> the pipeline. In contrast, 'representations' proxies are named
>>> 'DataRepresentation1', 'DataRepresentation2', etc., and to find  
>>> the proper
>>> proxy I always have iterate through the representation proxies and  
>>> check for
>>> a match between the proxy from 'sources' and the representation  
>>> proxy Input.
>>>
>>> Since I don't understand much about all the client/server/proxy  
>>> stuff, I
>>> don't know if this is a reasonable request, or if it's difficult  
>>> for PV to
>>> do things internally like change the representation name when the  
>>> source
>>> name is changed.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Eric
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>> Eric E Monson
>>> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>>>
>>>
>>>
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