PetscOptionsGetViewer#

Gets a viewer appropriate for the type indicated by the user

Synopsis#

#include "petscviewer.h" 
PetscErrorCode PetscOptionsGetViewer(MPI_Comm comm, PetscOptions options, const char pre[], const char name[], PetscViewer *viewer, PetscViewerFormat *format, PetscBool *set)

Collective

Input Parameters#

  • comm - the communicator to own the viewer

  • options - options database, use NULL for default global database

  • pre - the string to prepend to the name or NULL

  • name - the options database name that will be checked for

Output Parameters#

Notes#

If no value is provided ascii:stdout is used

  • ascii[:[filename][:[format][:append]]] - defaults to stdout - format can be one of ascii_info, ascii_info_detail, or ascii_matlab, for example ascii::ascii_info prints just the information about the object not all details unless :append is given filename opens in write mode, overwriting what was already there

  • binary[:[filename][:[format][:append]]] - defaults to the file binaryoutput

  • draw[:drawtype[:filename]] - for example, draw:tikz, draw:tikz:figure.tex or draw:x

  • socket[:port] - defaults to the standard output port

  • saws[:communicatorname] - publishes object to the Scientific Application Webserver (SAWs)

Use PetscOptionsRestoreViewer() after using the viewer, do not use PetscViewerDestroy()

You can control whether calls to this function create a viewer (or return early with *set of PETSC_FALSE) with PetscOptionsPushGetViewerOff(). This is useful if calling many small subsolves, in which case XXXViewFromOptions can take an appreciable fraction of the runtime.

If PETSc is configured with --with-viewfromoptions=0 this function always returns with *set of PETSC_FALSE

This routine is thread-safe for accessing predefined PetscViewers like PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_SELF but not for accessing files by name.

See Also#

Viewers: Looking at PETSc Objects, PetscOptionsRestoreViewer(), PetscOptionsGetReal(), PetscOptionsHasName(), PetscOptionsGetString(), PetscOptionsGetIntArray(), PetscOptionsGetRealArray(), PetscOptionsBool() PetscOptionsInt(), PetscOptionsString(), PetscOptionsReal(), PetscOptionsName(), PetscOptionsBegin(), PetscOptionsEnd(), PetscOptionsHeadBegin(), PetscOptionsStringArray(), PetscOptionsRealArray(), PetscOptionsScalar(), PetscOptionsBoolGroupBegin(), PetscOptionsBoolGroup(), PetscOptionsBoolGroupEnd(), PetscOptionsFList(), PetscOptionsEList(), PetscOptionsPushGetViewerOff(), PetscOptionsPopGetViewerOff(), PetscOptionsGetViewerOff()

Level#

intermediate

Location#

src/sys/classes/viewer/interface/viewreg.c

Examples#

src/snes/tutorials/ex36.c
src/snes/tutorials/ex62.c
src/snes/tutorials/ex17.c
src/vec/vec/utils/tagger/tutorials/ex1.c
src/sys/classes/viewer/tutorials/ex2.c
src/ts/tutorials/ex53.c
src/snes/tutorials/ex56.c


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