[Paraview] Auto-load plugin failed

[Yumin Yuan]

Hi Jerome,

You can try to compile your xml into a plugin, which will also solve
your the Version problem

Check "Enabling a filter in VTK" section on the wiki:
http://paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo

Yumin

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Yumin,
>
> Thanks a lot for your interest !! However...
>
>>
>> I assume once you load your xml plugin from the plugin_loader, and
>> check the "Auto Load" checkbox, the next time you start paraview, your
>> xml plugin is loaded automatically, no?
>
>
> That's my problem: it is not loaded even in this case... Attached is a
> minimal xml that exposes vtkImageMathematics to paraview filter list. I
> cannot auto-load it.
>
>>
>> Now regarding the warning message, I believe it is due to the new
>> addition to ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN macro in ParaViewPlugins.cmake (see
>> below), and the version shown in the plugin_loader_GUI refers to
>> plugin "Version" you set when calling ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN in
>> CMakeLists.txt
>
> Yes, my CMakeLists contains the version specification for the cxx plugins.
> But thank you for the update about REQUIRED_PLUGINS, I was hoping that it
> will solve my problem. So I set the PVCustomizer (cxx plugin, version "1.0"
> in the CMakeLists) requiring the XML "ParaviewVTK". But I cannot load
> "ParaviewVTK", so making the former depending on the latter is quite
> awkward... Finally, you made me progressing and I have a more precise
> question :
>    - How to set the version of a plugin that is only an XML description of
> VTK filters? -ie I don't have a CMakeLists for this...-
>
> Thanks again Yumin!
>
> Jerome
>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > ParaView-CVS brought a good surprise for me a few days ago. The plugin
>> > loader has been rewrote and is now offering an auto-load option that is
>> > very
>> > useful.
>> > However, I have an XML description of a lot of VTK native filters that
>> > cannot be opened automatically. I have to "Load new" each time. Then, no
>> > problem, the filters are exposed in the menu. But the plugin loader
>> > gives a
>> > warning message (see screenshot attached) and no "Version" (effectively,
>> > the
>> > XML doesn't have a "version=" element)...
>> >
>> > Second, I have an AutoStartPlugin that shows exactly the same problem
>> > (PVCustomizer). The reason, I think, is that this plugin depends on VTK
>> > filters (SplineFilter) that is described in the previous XML...
>> >
>> > Can someone tell me how to make the XML plugin 'autoloadeable' ? I
>> > wonder if
>> > it will solve the second problem...
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot!
>> >
>> > Jerome
>> >
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Yumin Yuan
R&D Engineer
Kitware Inc.
www.kitware.com
Phone : (518) 881-4936
email : yumin.yuan at kitware.com
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