[Paraview] ParaView 3 and PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULE

[clinton at elemtech.com]

On Friday 07 December 2007 12:44:16 pm Mike Jackson wrote:
> 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

I'll make a new wiki page.

Clint