[Paraview] ParaView 3 and PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULE

[Kent Eschenberg]

clinton at elemtech.com wrote:
< If the generated GUI isn't what
 > you want, you have to write a plugin.

The generated GUI cannot possibly know the labels, defaults and other 
particulars that are best for the GUI so I guess I'll have to write a plugin.

How do I do that and build the code into paraview during compilation? Loading 
things at every execution seems less reliable and could be difficult on 
parallel systems with no shared disk.

Would I still use PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULE?

TIA
Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

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
> 
>> TIA
>> Kent
>> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>>
>> linton at elemtech.com wrote:
>>  > It is still supported.
>>  > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Extend
>>  >
>>  > On minor difference:  the GUI XML files give to
>>  > PARAVIEW_INCLUDE_GUI_RESOURCES are as shown on
>>  > http://paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_a_custom_filter.2C_reader_o
>>  >r_writer
>>  >
>>  > <ParaViewReaders>
>>  >   <Reader name="MyReader"
>>  >           extensions="myreader mr"
>>  >           file_description="My Reader Files">
>>  >   </Reader>
>>  > </ParaViewReaders>
>>  >
>>  > Clint
>>  >
>>  > On Thursday 06 December 2007 11:39:41 am Mike Jackson wrote:
>>  >> Does ParaView 3.2.1 use the PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULE any more?
>>  >> In previous versions (PV 2.6.x) I would set this to my reader/writer/
>>  >> filter projects and directly build my code into the ParaView
>>  >> Compilation. Is this still possible? From reading the wiki it seems
>>  >> that you have to build ParaView first, then create the plugins?