Number of files in time series

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Hi,

I am writing a reader plugin and would like to make the plugin do something slightly different in case a time series is loaded.
How do I get the number of files in a time series or how what is the simplest way to identify whether I have a time series or a single file?

Many thank!

Best,
Thomas

2

file series are handled through the FileSeriesReader usually, are you doing that already ?

3

Hi,

the reader itself is inherits from vtkMultiBlockDataSetAlgorithm but is made to work with file series as described here: https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series

Best,
Thomas

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Ok, so you want to do something different than what the vtkFileSeriesReader is doing ? In that case you will need to implement your own vtkFileSeriesReader (or inherit from it) in order to do that.

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Ah, so far we didn’t include the vtkFileSeriesReader. We took the CDIReader as example and it does what we want.

Thank you very much!