[Paraview] How does one add a Mapper to ParaView?

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Assuming that your mapper is a subclass and drop in replacement for an
existing mapper that ParaView already uses, such as vtkPolyDataMapper,
you can create a dynamic or shared object library with a subclass of
vtkObjectFactory to override the creation of the appropriate mapper, and
then set your VTK_AUTOLOAD_PATH to point to your new factory.  See the
documentation for vtkObjectFactory for more details:

    http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkObjectFactory.html

-Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org
[mailto:paraview-
> bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Jon Woodring
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:04 PM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [Paraview] How does one add a Mapper to ParaView?
> 
> I've found the documentation in the Wiki and there doesn't seem to be
> any (easy) way to add a Mapper to ParaView.
> 
> I have been able to compile a stand alone PV module, and my Mapper
works
> fine in a stand alone VTK program.
> 
> I have been able to generate the .pvsm for the module, but the hitch
> comes to creating the .xml descriptor for the client.
> 
> Where do I go from here?  It it something that I am missing in the
> client?  In the existing .xml files in the ParaView source, I do not
see
> any that describe the Mappers, though the .pvsm for the Mappers are
> present for the server.  How do I hook in a new Mapper for the client?
> 
> Am I to assume that only readers, writers, and filters can be added to
> ParaView at run time?  Thus, do I need to hack ParaView if I want it
to
> display data in a different method (use my Mapper)?
> 
> -Jon
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