[Paraview-developers] Custom object panels for writers

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Gerald,

Custom property panels are deprecated since ParaView 4.0. It's
preferrable to use custom "property widgets" instead.

Refer to these wiki pages for details on how to add custom property widgets:

http://paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_Customizations_for_Properties_Panel
http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Properties_Panel

Utkarsh


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Lodron, Gerald
<Gerald.Lodron at joanneum.at> wrote:
> Hello
>
>
>
> I found out that the custom object panel does not work for writers. I
> inherited the pqGPCXWriter from Auto Panel with a throw in the constructor
> (so app should crash if panel is constructed), so I am really sure that
> constructor is never called.
>
>
>
> Here my cmake of the writer plugin:
>
>
>
> set(GUI_INT)
>
> set(GUI_SRCS)
>
> QT4_WRAP_CPP( MOC_SRCS pqGPCXWriter.h)
>
>
>
> ADD_PARAVIEW_OBJECT_PANEL(
>
>         IFACES IFACE_SRCS
>
>         CLASS_NAME pqGPCXWriter
>
>         XML_NAME GPCXWriter
>
>         XML_GROUP writer
>
>         )
>
> list(APPEND GUI_INT
>
>     ${IFACES}
>
>     )
>
> list(APPEND GUI_SRCS
>
>     ${IFACE_SRCS}
>
>     ${MOC_SRCS}
>
>     pqGPCXWriter.cxx
>
>     )
>
> ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN(GPCXPlugin
> "${GPCXPLUGIN_VERSION_MAJOR}.${GPCXPLUGIN_VERSION_MINOR}"
>
>         GUI_INTERFACES ${GUI_INT}
>
>         GUI_SOURCES ${GUI_SRCS}
>
>         SERVER_MANAGER_XML GPCXReader.xml GPCXWriter.xml
>
>         SERVER_MANAGER_SOURCES vtkGPCXReader.cxx vtkGPCXWriter.cxx
>
>         REQUIRED_ON_SERVER )
>
>
>
> With the xml:
>
>
>
> <ServerManagerConfiguration>
>
>
>
>   <ProxyGroup name="writers">
>
>
>
>     <WriterProxy name="GPCXWriter"
>
>                  class="vtkGPCXWriter"
>
>                  label="GPCX Writer">
>
>       <Documentation short_help="Write image data as a TIF file.">
>
>         Writes image data as a GPCX data file. Data must be initially
> constructed from a GPCX reader, currently no support for generated data from
> stratch.
>
>       </Documentation>
>
>
>
>       <InputProperty name="Input" command="SetInputConnection">
>
>         <ProxyGroupDomain name="groups">
>
>           <Group name="sources"/>
>
>           <Group name="filters"/>
>
>         </ProxyGroupDomain>
>
>         <DataTypeDomain name="input_type" composite_data_supported="0">
>
>           <DataType value="vtkPolyData"/>
>
>         </DataTypeDomain>
>
>       </InputProperty>
>
>
>
>       <StringVectorProperty name="FileName"
>
>                             command="SetFileName"
>
>                             number_of_elements="1"
>
>                             label="Filename">
>
>         <Documentation>
>
>           The file name of output.
>
>         </Documentation>
>
>       </StringVectorProperty>
>
>
>
>        <StringVectorProperty name="test"
>
>                             command="Settest"
>
>                             number_of_elements="1"
>
>                             >
>
>         <Documentation>
>
>           The file name of output.
>
>         </Documentation>
>
>       </StringVectorProperty>
>
>
>
>       <Hints>
>
>         <Property name="Input" show="0"/>
>
>         <WriterFactory extensions="gpcx"
>
>                        file_description="GPCX data file" />
>
>       </Hints>
>
>
>
>     </WriterProxy>
>
>
>
>   </ProxyGroup>
>
>
>
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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