Thanks for more info.

I do in fact have "Time" for one of my plots so that is easy to achieve. I just had to correctly set the name of the column from "Time Values" to "Time" and that should work. The other plots probably are more difficult at this point. I have Stress/Strain data where I need the Stress on the x-axis and strain on the y-axis. I do not think I am understanding how to set some value on the vtkTable class that when finally passed over to the GUI layer will set the some arbitrary column as the x-axis. I thought the proxy stuff was all done on the GUI side of things? I guess I need just a bit more hand holding.
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BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio



On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:

Sorry, yes, I was in VTK world. There are a few column names with
special meanings to ParaView that are hard coded in the proxy. You can
get at the chart object if you wish to manipulate it directly, but you
should be able to achieve everything you need to through the proxies.

Marcus

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:28 PM, pat marion <pat.mar...@kitware.com> wrote:
I think by default it will plot a line for each column in the table. It will use the cell value as the Y value, and the row index as the X value. To change the behavior, you have to change two representation properties:


rep.UseIndexForXAxis = 0

rep.XArrayName = 'foo'

This will plot all all the columns, except use the "foo" column as the X values. That means the line for the "foo" column is still displayed, and it
will be a diagonal line.

I just looked, and Paraview has one cheat hard coded- if there is a column named "Time" or "arc_length" then it will be used automatically for the X
axis.

Pat

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jack...@bluequartz.net> wrote:

Thanks for the idea. I was trying to figure out the flow from reading the data into displaying the data hoping to reveal some sort of default or something. I was going to generate some fake CSV data and see how that reader does things hoping the CSV reader takes the first column as the
x-axis.
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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jack...@bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio



On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:08 PM, pat marion wrote:

Hi Mike,

I'm not up to speed with the current chart api so I can't answer your question... but maybe you could try doing it in the gui with python trace enabled, then translate the generated python code into c++ for your plugin? Customizing the chart should be a matter of setting properties on the representation and view, the data object itself doesn't have much say.

Pat

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jack...@bluequartz.net> wrote:
I have some XY data that I would like to plot in ParaView. I currently have a plugin that reads the data from our HDF5 file and into vtkTable
objects. Along the lines of a "Line Chart 101" question how do I
programmatically set the x-axis and y-axis columns?

Thanks
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BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio



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