<div dir="ltr">Excellent, thank you!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-06-06 19:01 GMT+02:00 Utkarsh Ayachit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com" target="_blank">utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Attached.<br>
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Peter Debuchev <<a href="mailto:peterdebuchev@gmail.com">peterdebuchev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear Utkarsh,<br>
> thank you for your offer to search the old ParaView Guide v3 client-server<br>
> programming chapter. May I ask whether your search has been successful? Even<br>
> a scan of the pages from the relevant chapter would be nice, if you are<br>
> authorized to share it.<br>
><br>
> I have read all your links, and they are great to get an idea about the<br>
> changes that are going on. However, I would need a well structured<br>
> book-chapter which builds the story from the basic requirements to a full,<br>
> simple application. The information in the links is so spread that<br>
> everything seems to depend on everything else, and nowhere is it clear what<br>
> are ideas for the future, what is under current development, and what has<br>
> been deprecated again.<br>
> I would really like to read again the chapter from ParaView Guide v3, which<br>
> I remember gave me perfect insight into Paraview years ago. Even if it is<br>
> rather out of date, it would give me a solid basis to better understand the<br>
> current developments.<br>
><br>
> Peter<br>
><br>
> 2016-06-02 14:43 GMT+02:00 Utkarsh Ayachit <<a href="mailto:utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com">utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com</a>>:<br>
>><br>
>> Alas, there's nothing up-to-date. I've been meaning to write a blog<br>
>> series covering various aspect of ParaView internals, but it's hard to<br>
>> find some downtime to get that going. I'll try to see if I can find<br>
>> the old PDF for the ParaView Guide v3 and share the old chapter<br>
>> (although obsolete, but basic design may still be relevant). The<br>
>> ParaView developers Wiki<br>
>> (<a href="http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/Main_Page" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/Main_Page</a>) has a few<br>
>> articles that we wrote with coming up with the design for some of the<br>
>> core components. The implementations generally differ slightly from<br>
>> the design and may have names/APIs changed since, but nonetheless may<br>
>> be helpful in understanding how things came about. Specifically,<br>
>><br>
>> [1] <a href="http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/ServerManager_2.0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/ServerManager_2.0</a><br>
>> [2] <a href="http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/ProcessModule_2.0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/ProcessModule_2.0</a><br>
>> [3] <a href="http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/Views_And_Representations" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/Views_And_Representations</a><br>
>> [4]<br>
>> <a href="http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/images/2/24/ParaViewCollaborationChanges.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/images/2/24/ParaViewCollaborationChanges.pdf</a><br>
>><br>
>> Utkarsh<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Ellon Paiva <<a href="mailto:ellonpaiva@gmail.com">ellonpaiva@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > +1 for that. I'm very interested to know if there's such book or<br>
>> > document.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > When I started developing a plug-in for ParaView I found this<br>
>> > presentation<br>
>> > almost by accident. Maybe it can help you. Apparently it was used in a<br>
>> > conference/workshop (VIS08?) to describe briefly the proxy system, and<br>
>> > refers to the "Paraview Guide, Version 3, section 18.6, and chapter 19<br>
>> > for<br>
>> > details (see slide 30). Unfortunately the version 3 of the Guide I<br>
>> > couldn't<br>
>> > find.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Ellon<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > On 06/02/2016 07:35 AM, Peter Debuchev wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Is any introduction available, how vtkSMServerManager, vtkSMSessions,<br>
>> > vtkProxies etc. are set up to interact with a pvserver or with a custom<br>
>> > server application?<br>
>> > I am not talking about short demos that show how to create and display a<br>
>> > sphere using pvpython. What I am looking for is a book chapter or<br>
>> > similar<br>
>> > explaining the principles behind vtkSMSessions, vtkProcies etc.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Does anybody remember, which of the VTK or ITK or Paraview books<br>
>> > included<br>
>> > such chapters?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Peter<br>
>> ><br>
>> > 2016-05-29 19:09 GMT+02:00 Peter Debuchev <<a href="mailto:peterdebuchev@gmail.com">peterdebuchev@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Dear Paraview programmers,<br>
>> >> I am looking for some information about the basic principles of<br>
>> >> Paraviews<br>
>> >> client-server model, the setup of client proxies and the communication<br>
>> >> design.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> I think that I have seen a chapter with a short introduction on these<br>
>> >> topics some years ago. It was in one of the VTK books or in the<br>
>> >> Paraview<br>
>> >> User's Guide. Now I cannot find this chapter again. Has it been removed<br>
>> >> in<br>
>> >> the latest edition of these books? Or is it described in a different<br>
>> >> book<br>
>> >> which I don't remember?<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Peter<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
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