Choose paraview version by environment variable

bastil · January 15, 2010, 04:52

Dear all,

I use the pvFoam script to launch Paraview and the external parallel reader. This works find and has the advantage of being independent from OpenFOAM.
I want to update to Paraview 3.6.2 and there is no need to recompile paraFoam or anything else from the OF package. Now I want the user to have the choice of which pv to be used. This can be done by setting ParaView_VERSION.
However, etc/apps/paraview3/bashrc overwrites this setting:

Code:

export ParaView_VERSION=3.6.1

I propose to replace this line with:

Code:

: ${ParaView_VERSION:="3.6.1"}; export ParaView_VERSION

This makes it possible to choose paraview version by setting an environment variable before sourcing bashrc.

Regards BastiL

jiejie · January 21, 2010, 01:16

Hi Bastil

OpenFOAM comes with paraview 3.6.1 and I have downloaded the new paraview 3.6.2.

I have tried to modify the etc/apps/paraview3/bashrc with your suggestion and it still opens up with paraview 3.6.1 when I use "paraFoam"

Could you please explain a bit more about how to integrate the new paraview 3.6.2 with OpenFOAM 1.6?

Thanks a lot.

mattijs · January 27, 2010, 11:21

Thanks for the change. I've pushed something similar to 1.6.x. You now have

ParaView_MAJOR
ParaView_VERSION

which default to paraview-3.6 and 3.6.1.

January 15, 2010, 04:52	Choose paraview version by environment variable	#1
bastil Senior Member BastiL Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 530 Rep Power: 20	Dear all, I use the pvFoam script to launch Paraview and the external parallel reader. This works find and has the advantage of being independent from OpenFOAM. I want to update to Paraview 3.6.2 and there is no need to recompile paraFoam or anything else from the OF package. Now I want the user to have the choice of which pv to be used. This can be done by setting ParaView_VERSION. However, etc/apps/paraview3/bashrc overwrites this setting: Code: export ParaView_VERSION=3.6.1 I propose to replace this line with: Code: : ${ParaView_VERSION:="3.6.1"}; export ParaView_VERSION This makes it possible to choose paraview version by setting an environment variable before sourcing bashrc. Regards BastiL

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January 21, 2010, 01:16		#2
jiejie Senior Member Jie Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Australia Posts: 134 Rep Power: 16	Hi Bastil OpenFOAM comes with paraview 3.6.1 and I have downloaded the new paraview 3.6.2. I have tried to modify the etc/apps/paraview3/bashrc with your suggestion and it still opens up with paraview 3.6.1 when I use "paraFoam" Could you please explain a bit more about how to integrate the new paraview 3.6.2 with OpenFOAM 1.6? Thanks a lot.

January 27, 2010, 11:21		#3
mattijs Senior Member Mattijs Janssens Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,419 Rep Power: 26	Thanks for the change. I've pushed something similar to 1.6.x. You now have ParaView_MAJOR ParaView_VERSION which default to paraview-3.6 and 3.6.1.