[Paraview] ParaView 3 and PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULE

[Mike Jackson]

On Dec 7, 2007, at 2:33 PM, clinton at elemtech.com wrote:

> On Friday 07 December 2007 12:24:44 pm Kent Eschenberg wrote:
>> Clint,
>>
>> Thanks but those Wiki pages don't answer 2 important questions. I  
>> assume
>> references to "GUI xml" and "client xml" are equivalent.
>>
>> 1) Where does all the information shown in the "Extend" example  
>> go, that
>> gives the name of the C++ class and describes the GUI?
>
> Nowhere.  That is a Paraview 2.6 thing.
>
>> The example from
>> "Plugin" (which you provided in your message, below) doesn't show  
>> any of
>> that.
>
> ParaView3 generates the GUI automatically.  If the generated GUI  
> isn't what
> you want, you have to write a plugin.  The GUI/client xml I gave  
> below is to
> tell the file dialogs what file extensions go with what readers.
>
>>
>> 2) What if the custom module is a filter not a reader?
>
> Then you don't have any GUI side xml or code at all.
>
> Clint

Would it be possible to update those wiki pages so that each section  
states if it is relevant to ParaView 2 or 3 or Both? I would do it  
but I just have no idea.

Thanks
Mike