[Paraview] SelectInputVector attribute in the SurfaceLIC plugin

[Wilhelm Lionel]

Works like a charm,
thanks a lot !

Lionel
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De : Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
Envoyé : lundi 11 septembre 2017 18:23
À : Wilhelm Lionel
Cc : Paraview at paraview.org
Objet : Re: [Paraview] SelectInputVector attribute in the SurfaceLIC plugin

Lionel,

There's indeed a bug there. A temporary workaround is as follows:

LoadDistributedPlugin("SurfaceLIC", ns=globals())
Disconnect()
Connect()

A fix for the issue is here:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/merge_requests/1898
I'll have it merged in before the next release.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Wilhelm Lionel <lionel.wilhelm at epfl.ch> wrote:
> Utkarsh,
> Thanks for the so quick reply :)
> Actually I explicitly load the plugin with the following command :
> LoadPlugin('/usr/lib/paraview-5.4/plugins/SurfaceLIC/libSurfaceLIC.so', remote=True, ns=globals())
>
> I tried to load it with the command you suggested but it raises the same error.
>
> While i'm continuing looking for a solution, I saw this old thred https://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2012-July/025681.html
> I tried to use a command like
> extractBlock1Display_1 = Show(extractBlock1, View4)
> extractBlock1Display_1.Representation = 'Surface LIC'
> extractBlock1Display_1.SMProxy.GetProperty('SelectInputVectors').SetElement(0,['POINTS', 'vitesse'])
>
> but it still does not work...
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lionel
> ________________________________________
> De : Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
> Envoyé : lundi 11 septembre 2017 16:43
> À : Wilhelm Lionel
> Cc : Paraview at paraview.org
> Objet : Re: [Paraview] SelectInputVector attribute in the SurfaceLIC plugin
>
> Lionel,
>
> Does your Python script load the plugin explcitly? Currently none of
> the state files capture which plugins are loaded, you have to manually
> load the plugin. You can use  the following to load the plugin in your
> script before creating any of the proxies.
>
> LoadDistributedPlugin("SurfaceLIC", ns=globals())
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Wilhelm Lionel <lionel.wilhelm at epfl.ch> wrote:
>> Dear Paraviewers,
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to use the SurfaceLIC plugin in a script intended to be executed
>> by pvbatch. Naturally, I used the trace tool in the GUI to design my python
>> script. When save the state in python and try to run it with pvbatch it
>> raises the following error :
>>
>>
>> ensight_full_cyclescaseDisplay.SelectInputVectors = ['POINTS', 'vitesse']
>>   File "/usr/lib/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paraview/servermanager.py",
>> line 453, in __setattr__
>>     "to add this attribute.")
>> AttributeError: Attribute SelectInputVectors does not exist.  This class
>> does not allow addition of new attributes to avoid mistakes due to typos.
>> Use add_attribute() if you really want to add this attribute.
>>
>>
>> but if I just load state in the paraview GUI with the exact same script,
>> paraview does not complain. Any workaround ?
>>
>>
>> In fact, by searching a solution, it seems that the
>> ensight_full_cyclescaseDisplay object has a dictionary called
>> _Proxy__Properties which contain a key 'SelectInputVectors'. The problem is
>> that the SelectInputVectors value is a dead weakref object... and I'm not
>> really familiar with weakref objects.
>>
>>
>> Lionel Wilhelm
>>
>>
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