Re: [Paraview] low level C++ example how to communicate with pvserver

2010-12-16 Thread Thomas Kipling
Dear John, thank you very much for sharing the example. However, I don't see how I can make use of it in relation to my original question. I am not sure whether the reason is that I am not enough familiar with the Paraview concepts or because the actual server manager usage examples that I am

[Paraview] place 2-D png file in 3-D field

2010-12-16 Thread Xueli Wang
Dear ParaView users, I made a movie in 3-D space, but I want to put a 2-D image file on one of the corners. It is so difficult to fix it on a 2-D plane. Does anyone know a solution to it? Thanks in advance! Xueli ___ Powered by www.kitware.com

Re: [Paraview] place 2-D png file in 3-D field

2010-12-16 Thread Sebastien Jourdain
If you create a plane source, you can use your image as a texture. Hope this helps, Seb On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Xueli Wang w...@knmi.nl wrote: Dear ParaView users, I made a movie in 3-D space, but I want to put a 2-D image file on one of the corners. It is so difficult to fix it

[Paraview] Problem compiling GIT-checkout...

2010-12-16 Thread Stefan Melber
Hi, i did a git-checkout this morning with git clone --recursive git://paraview.org/ParaView.git Works without problems. But trying to compile it, i get an error during ccmake (generate): CMake Error: INSTALL(EXPORT ParaViewTargets ...) includes target hdf5 which requires target vtkzlib

Re: [Paraview] low level C++ example how to communicate with pvserver

2010-12-16 Thread Biddiscombe, John A.
Thomas, What do you mean by I manually instantiate the pvserver manager stuff? Please mention, where Did you look in the InitServerManager function? you can see how we manually start up a server manager. We tell it that we are a PVBATCH (ie no connection required from a client). All you need

Re: [Paraview] place 2-D png file in 3-D field

2010-12-16 Thread Xueli Wang
Thanks for your mail. I created a plane source as you suggested, but still it's difficult to put it on the right place. You know the movie shows a global with clouds of rain on it. It zooms in and out and rotates. This image has to do the same as the globe all the time. I wonder if there is a

Re: [Paraview] low level C++ example how to communicate with pvserver

2010-12-16 Thread Thomas Kipling
try ... almost everywhere in DemoCPPipeline. Proxies are used for everything. You must need glasses if you didn't see any of it! Thank you, after a closer look with glasses your explanations are very helpful :-) Thomas ___ Powered by

Re: [Paraview] place 2-D png file in 3-D field

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Edwards
How about just setting a background image for the 3D view? Regards, Paul On 16 December 2010 10:52, Xueli Wang w...@knmi.nl wrote: Thanks for your mail. I created a plane source as you suggested, but still it's difficult to put it on the right place. You know the movie shows a global with

Re: [Paraview] offscreen rendering problem on mac OS X

2010-12-16 Thread Dave Partyka
Hi Ashkan are you getting any error output and also are you able to share an example dataset. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:47 AM, ashkan rafiee ashkan.raf...@yahoo.comwrote: I am trying to save an animation from my results in Paraview 3.8.1 on Mac OS X and always Paraview crashes at the end. I

Re: [Paraview] place 2-D png file in 3-D field

2010-12-16 Thread Xueli Wang
It is a good idea! It solves for great part the problem. Only when it zooms in very much then the background image will totally hidden... I'll use it unless there is a better solution for it. Thanks! Xueli Paul Edwards wrote: How about just setting a background image for the 3D view?

Re: [Paraview] Problem compiling GIT-checkout...

2010-12-16 Thread Dave Partyka
Hi Stefan. Are you telling ParaView to use system zlib or anything like that? What settings are you adjusting when you run ccmake? The export has to do when the installation rules are processed to export a set of targets. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Stefan Melber stefan.mel...@dlr.de wrote:

[Paraview] ANN: Training Course in Lyon, France

2010-12-16 Thread Lisa Avila
More great news for folks in the EU: Kitware will be holding a developers training course on February 2-4, 2011 in Lyon, France. This course will cover ITK, VTK, ParaView, and CMake, and there will be an optional ski trip to L'Alpe d'Huez on Saturday, February 5. Please visit our web site for more

[Paraview] Background: trim, transparent?

2010-12-16 Thread Nico Schlömer
Hi all, for Paraview's Save Screenshot or Save Animation, is it possible to trim the resulting image to to get rid of the unnecessary background, and even more so, to treat the background color as transparent (e.g. when exporting to PNG)? Cheers, Nico