reload button wold be really nice for watching simulations
This issue was created automatically from an original Mantis Issue. Further discussion may take place here.
In V2.6 a trick that existed was to build a visualization, and then as new time steps (more vtk files) became available from a simulation one could delete the input file name, reload, then repast the file name and reload and the visualization would then be reloaded with more time steps.
This no longer works with PV3. It would be great to have a reload button that would reload the whole pipe line based on the current pvd input file. This should be universal enough that it would work with other file formats. For me pvd files would cover it.
Just to be clear. I run a simulation. After n steps I build a pvd file and load it into PV. THen I build a pipeline to look at an interesting feature. After n+x steps I rebuild a pvd file with more time steps (same name). With this new feature I would then hit reload and the pipeline would re-build based on the updated pvd file.
Thanks for all the great work on PV!
Dan (dan@cora.nwra.com)