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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>Thanks, your suggested changes to the XML worked and does exactly what I needed! Big help. Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>You may be quite right, that it would be a hack to get to the display properties. I’m trying to do something in a C++ plugin similar to the following statements in a python script<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>DataRepresentation850h = GetDisplayProperties (Contour850p)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>DataRepresentation850h = Show()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>DataRepresentation850h.DiffuseColor = [0.,0.,0.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>DataRepresentation850h.LineWidth = 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>In addition to setting a solid color, as above, I’m also wanting to set “Color by” and set that to another of the scalars in the input data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>Any thoughts / recommendations?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>Phil<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> burlen [mailto:burlen.loring@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> Phil Amburn<br><b>Cc:</b> paraview-developers@paraview.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview-developers] c++ plugin; viewing parameters and output names<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> you could name your outputs in the xml code, add something similar to the following as suits your use case<br><br><OutputPort name="Solar Wind" index="0" /><br><OutputPort name="Magnetosphere" index="1" /><br><OutputPort name="North Connected" index="2" /><br><OutputPort name="South Connected" index="3" /><br><OutputPort name="Null/Short Int." index="4" /><br><br>I'm sure you could access the display properties in a custom panel, however it might be very hackish to do so.<br><br>On 08/13/2012 06:17 PM, Phil Amburn wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><pre>I hope this hasn't been submitted twice, but I sent email on Saturday and<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>haven't seen it in my mail, so I'm trying again.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I'm working on a c++ plugin that is a filter that reads a vtkStructuredGrid<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>and generates 3 polygonal outputs. The environment I'm using is ParaView<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>3.10.1, MS Windows 7, and MS Visual Studio 2008.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>One of the outputs is a 3D contour surface of one of four scalars in the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>vtkStructuredGrid input, and I'd like to be able to modify the "Color by"<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>setting in the Display panel from "Solid Color" to color by one of the other<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>scalars in the input. Easy to do through the GUI, but I'd like to do this<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>from within the plugin. <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Is it possible to modify the "Color by" setting from within the plugin?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Can I get a list of the groups being maintained by the server manager? I<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>expect (hope) I'm interested in the groups and properties associated with<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>the display panel, and hope to be able to set them from within the plugin.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I have another question. When this filter generates its three outputs, they<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>are named output-0, output-1, and output-2 in the Pipeline Browser. Can I<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>change those names to something more informative from within the plugin,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>such as "constant pressure surface"?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I've attached the xml and cmake files I'm using along with C++ code.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Thanks, any help would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Phil<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Paraview-developers mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Paraview-developers@paraview.org">Paraview-developers@paraview.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview-developers">http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview-developers</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>