[Paraview-developers] Canonical way to preserve plugin settings

[Cory Quammen]

Hi Michael,

Please see Chapter 10 "Customizing Defaults" in the ParaView Guide:

http://www.paraview.org/paraview-guide/

Cheers,
Cory

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Schlottke-Lakemper, Michael <
m.schlottke-lakemper at aia.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Is there a built-in way to preserve settings in a custom reader plugin
> between multiple ParaView sessions?
>
> Use case: in our custom reader it is possible to select a level-of-detail
> when visualizing data. By default (in the SM.xml) it is set to a value that
> will be useful for most users, but occasionally it would be nice to
> preserve the value between sessions (e.g. if a user is looking at many
> different files and is always selecting a very low level). Thus it would be
> nice to preserve some values while it does not make sense for others, and
> it would be nice to be able to enable/disable this behavior.
>
> If there is no built-in way to achieve this, what would be the “canonical”
> approach to doing it (e.g. writing a statefile/config file to a default
> directory)?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance
>
> Michael
>
>
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Cory Quammen
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