[Paraview] Accessing GetAnimationScene() from the ProgrammableSource

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Bill,

You cannot access animation scene from ProgrammableSource. Anything
from simple.py/servermanager.py cannot be accessed in
ProgrammableSource/Filter. You can add Python scripts as an animation
track, however. In the animation view, choose "Python" in the first
combo-box next to the "+" button.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Bill Sherman <shermanw at indiana.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question about how to access internal ParaView data from the
> Programmable Source source.
>
> Specifically, I want to have a source that changes based on the animation
> time, and so I would like to know how to get the current data-time
> from within the python code of a Programmable Source.
>
> So, using the Python_Scripting wiki entry on paraview.org, I have
> found that from the Python Shell I can get information about the
> current time of the animation using the GetAnimationScene() method,
> so I'm hoping that there is a quick trick to accessing this data
> from the ProgrammableSource python code.
>
> Eg.
>         >>> scene=GetAnimationScene()
>         >>> print scene.AnimationTime
>         30.0466
>
> I think from there I can do some interesting stuff.
>
>         Thanks in advance,
>         Bill
>
> --
> Bill Sherman
> Sr. Technology Advisor
> Advanced Visualization Lab
> Pervasive Technology Inst
> Indiana University
> shermanw at indiana.edu