[Paraview-developers] Custom object panels for writers

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Fri Mar 14 10:00:07 EDT 2014 

PassArrays is indeed a buggy filter/panel. It's on my todo list to
look at, it just never gets up the todo list :).

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Felipe Bordeu Weldt
<felipe.bordeu at ec-nantes.fr> wrote:
> I think is a bug, because if you create a new 3D view, you can display the output of the PassArrays Filter.
>
> Felipe
>
>
> Le 14 mars 2014 à 11:33, "Lodron, Gerald" <Gerald.Lodron at joanneum.at> a écrit :
>
>> Ok, i solved the issue of getting information about the input. I copied it from the calculator widget.
>>
>> Is there no widget for multiselect arrays of the input? Also the PassArrays filter uses the old panel interface for that purpose. By the way: If i use the PassArray filter in Paraview the output of the filter is an unknown type and PV cannot display that any more... (bug?)
>>
>> Thanks for support
>> Gerald
>>
>> Von meinem Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman gesendet
>>
>> -------- Originalnachricht --------
>> Betreff: AW: [Paraview-developers] Custom object panels for writers
>> Von: "Lodron, Gerald" <Gerald.Lodron at joanneum.at>
>> An: Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
>> Cc:
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Ok, than it seems that my prior work for last 3 weeks is also deprecated.... I now had a look at the "property widgets" and have some questions:
>>
>> -> In the old "ObjectPanel" I get access to the referenceProxy over referenceProxy() where I could access input information (array names and types etc.) over a cast to pqPipelineFilter. I cannot find such an access from pqPropertyWidget, or am I missing something?
>>
>> -> Is there a way of passing "information only" information to any output form in paraview. Currently I made a custom object widget and used information only properties with a Getter functionality to give the user feedback about some things of the filter (processing time, number of used iterations, etc.)
>>
>> I want to really make my toolkit Paraview conform but it is really hard for me to find out the right way....
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. März 2014 16:24
>> An: Lodron, Gerald
>> Cc: Paraview Developer (Paraview-developers at paraview.org)
>> Betreff: Re: [Paraview-developers] Custom object panels for writers
>>
>> 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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