[Paraview-developers] Forwarding optional input port to subproxy

[Mathieu Westphal]

AFAIK it's not possible for subproxies (could be wrong as well though)

Mathieu Westphal

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:35 PM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the tip.
>
> AIUI, though, the Hints/ProxyList/Link method only works for
> ProxyProperties, not SubProxies? (I could be completely wrong).
>
> I'll still need someway to add an arbitrary input to the ProxyListDomain,
> too.
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Mathieu Westphal <
> mathieu.westphal at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Take a look at thsi xml.
>>
>> It's a the tracker "Surface" input is an optional input which is
>> forwarded to the "Model" proxy.
>> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/868bfcbac9
>> 4325498394f2f9845b81b17e91a377/Plugins/LagrangianParticleTra
>> cker/LagrangianParticleTracker.xml
>>
>> Mathieu
>>
>> Mathieu Westphal
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:45 PM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to add the ability to use a custom dataset as a glyph source
>>> in for the default glyph/geometry representation, and I'm stuck at the XML
>>> part.
>>>
>>> How things are currently arranged:
>>>
>>> Glyph3DRepresentation has a GlyphType InputProperty, which is controlled
>>> by a ProxyListDomain that contains various polydata SourceProxies.
>>>
>>> The GeometryRepresentation has a Glyph3DRepresentation SubProxy.
>>>
>>> It looks like I'd need some way to:
>>>
>>> 1) Specify that the GlyphType's ProxyListDomain should use an input
>>> connection as valid input.
>>>
>>> 2) Add an optional input connection to GeometryRepresentation that is
>>> picked up by Glyph3DRepresentation and used for the GlyphType input when
>>> the ProxyListDomain is set to "use input" from (1).
>>>
>>> Do these pieces exist, or are there other ways to do this?
>>>
>>> BTW, I'm aware of the custom glyph filter, but that won't work in this
>>> scenario -- we need the glyphing to happen at render-time without creating
>>> a massive glyphed polydata object in-memory.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
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