[Paraview-developers] Developing interactive ParaView reader

[Michael Schlottke]

There are three cases which would be tremendously helpful to realize:

1) Change the visible options in the properties panel depending on information in the file (e.g. only show checkbox if a certain data array was found)
2) Change the usable options depending on other options the user has chosen (e.g. only if he chooses to load additional data, let him use the data array selector, otherwise don't show it/grey it out)
3) Populate options with information from the file (e.g. data array names to select, or a drop down list with existing hierarchy levels etc.)

Michael

On May 29, 2013, at 23:28 , Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:

> Can you elaborate on what these "interactive options" are? Would these
> be similar to data array names, for example, that readers allow users
> to select?
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Michael Schlottke
> <m.schlottke at aia.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Is it possible to "interactively" get user input when writing a ParaView
>> reader? We have developed a ParaView reader plugin for our simulation data
>> that builds an unstructured grid and visualizes all data arrays found in the
>> solution file. I am looking for a possibility to search the solution file
>> (e.g. during CanReadFile()) for viable datasets,  which are then presented
>> to the user to select the data that should be visualized.
>> 
>> At the moment we use the ServerConf.xml file to get all user options, but
>> with the .xml file we can only hard code some options. We are hoping that
>> there is a way to interactively act with the user from within the plugin.
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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