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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dan, Utkarsh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the links. (I didn’t want to use a property widget as I need the apply button feature in my own dock window etc).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m of the opinion that the greyed out buttons (for view/display/etc) should be invisible if the panel mode does not include them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Attached is a patch to hide them. #001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I needed to subclass panel properties to override some methods so that I can intercept apply and other methods.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Attached is a patch which makes a couple of functions virtual and also adds a preapplied signal emitted before new properties are ‘applied’. #002,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The gear search thingy seems very broken - I’ll submit a patch if and when I find what’s wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">it’d be lovely if these patches could be applied to master.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">(PS. any news of when I can do this via a github #PR and have it part of the accepted means of contributing?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">thanks very much, all seems to be working as before now, (subject to a few ongoing tweaks)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">JB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Dan Lipsa [<a href="mailto:dan.lipsa@kitware.com">mailto:dan.lipsa@kitware.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 20 October 2014 16:28<br>
<b>To:</b> Biddiscombe, John A.<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:paraview-developers@paraview.org">paraview-developers@paraview.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview-developers] pqObjectInspector<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_Customizations_for_Properties_Panel">http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_Customizations_for_Properties_Panel</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Dan Lipsa <<a href="mailto:dan.lipsa@kitware.com" target="_blank">dan.lipsa@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not a direct answer to your question but I found the following wiki entry useful in adding/debugging entries in the properties panel.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">See especially the environment variable PV_DEBUG_PANELS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Properties_Panel" target="_blank">http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Properties_Panel</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <<a href="mailto:biddisco@cscs.ch" target="_blank">biddisco@cscs.ch</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">I managed to get something working with a pqPropertiesPanel and creating my own pqPipelineSource, so properties become visible.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Question:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">My panel has SOURCE_PROPERTIES set, but I get two (of each) greyed out, save and default buttons for (presumable) the view properties and display properties
which I don’t need. Can I make them hidden?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">There appears to be a bug in the advanced properties gear button thingy, because one you type something in there, everything disappears and never comes
back! (I noticed in the main preferences, lots of options are hidden until you enter a space in the search box, then tons appear - as if by magic - could there be something wrong with the property search feature?)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">ta</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">JB</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Paraview-developers
[mailto:</span><a href="mailto:paraview-developers-bounces@paraview.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">paraview-developers-bounces@paraview.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Biddiscombe, John A.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 17 October 2014 14:48<br>
<b>To:</b> </span><a href="mailto:paraview-developers@paraview.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">paraview-developers@paraview.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Paraview-developers] pqObjectInspector</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I used to use pqObjectInspector quite heavily, in fact my plugin has a subclass of it which displays all the properties of my live-viz manager class inside a window.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Now that pqObjectInspector has gone, I tried to use a pqPropertiesPanel, but it does not have a setProxy method, and only seems to want pqPipeLinesource objects.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">is there something I can use to display all my stuff and have an accept/reset button like the old object inspector ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">JB<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">John Biddiscombe, email:biddisco @.at.@
</span><a href="http://cscs.ch" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">cscs.ch</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://www.cscs.ch/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext">http://www.cscs.ch/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | Tel:
</span><a href="tel:%2B41%20%2891%29%20610.82.07" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">+41 (91) 610.82.07</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="IT-CH" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Via Trevano 131, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland | Fax:
</span><a href="tel:%2B41%20%2891%29%20610.82.82" target="_blank"><span lang="IT-CH" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">+41 (91) 610.82.82</span></a><span lang="IT-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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