[Paraview-developers] Adding support for multiple types of extensions in vtkPVWriter?

[Berk Geveci]

Sounds good to me. I would appreciate it if you could wait a few days.
I have to make some changes to vtkPVDWriter soon.

-Berk
 
On 9/9/05, Stanton, Eric T <etstant at sandia.gov> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'd like to see if anyone objects to me committing a change so that you
> can choose from different types of file extensions when saving data in
> ParaView. My reasoning for doing this is because I have a need to be
> able to save data back to the original file from which it was read. And
> this can't always be done under the current scheme of only allowing one
> extension per writer, if the file has an extension that IS supported by
> the reader but not by the writer.
> 
> >From a code standpoint, the change will simply mimic what is currently
> done in vtkPVReaderModule. The following files would be modified:
> 
> vtkPVWriter.h/.cxx - Add extension related methods like in
> vtkPVReaderModule. Also add a CanWriteFile(char*) method that checks the
> list of extensions against a filename
> vtkPVXMLPackageParser.cxx - Change "extension" to "extensions"
> Writers.xml - Change "extension" to "extensions", add list of possible
> extensions
> vtkPVWindow.cxx - Add a check for vtkPVWriter::CanWriteFile() change the
> way the list of file extensions gets created
> 
> 
> Eric Stanton
> Sandia National Laboratories
> Data Analysis and Visualization
> 
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