[Paraview] Custom Filters not showing in PV3.2

[Eric E. Monson]

Hey again,

Regarding setting the PV_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable to auto- 
load plugins: I just remembered that you are probably using OS X, so  
just in case you weren't aware of them, I thought I'd pass along the  
tricks I learned recently for setting environment variables in OS X  
for "double-clickable" apps.

Here's a link describing how to set environment variables for all  
processes launched by a specific user:
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html

You can also set the environment on an app-by-app basis by editing  
the Info.plist file in an application package, as referred to at the  
bottom of this page:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/ 
BPRuntimeConfig/Articles/EnvironmentVars.html

For example, in ParaView 3 I can use the Property List Editor to  
modify [...]/paraview.app/Contents/Info.plist, adding the  
LSEnvironment Property List Key to look like:
http://www.duke.edu/~emonson/Image-5972b59f.tiff

or, editing the xml text directly in Info.plist, I would just add  
these lines as a key-value pair:
         <key>LSEnvironment</key>
         <dict>
                 <key>PV_PLUGIN_PATH</key>
                 <string>/Users/emonson/Programming/ParaView_cvs/ 
ParaView3_build/bin</string>
         </dict>

then when I double-click paraview.app my plugins are loaded  
automatically.

Hope this is helpful to someone,
-Eric

-----------------------------------------------------
Eric E. Monson
Duke Visualization Technology Group


On Nov 8, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Eric Monson wrote:

> Hey Mike,
>
> If your custom plugins are being compiled correctly there should be  
> libraries which are generated during the build. Once you are in  
> ParaView, go to the menu Tools => Manage Plugins... and you can  
> manually load these libraries (server or client side). You can also  
> set the PV_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable to the directory  
> containing the plugin libraries and they'll be loaded on  
> application launch.
>
> -Eric
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Eric E. Monson
> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Mike Jackson wrote:
>
>> I got my custom plugins to compile against ParaView 3.2 and all my  
>> custom readers seem to work but my filters do NOT show up anywhere  
>> in the Filter menu.
>>
>> I have server manager XML defined as follows:
>>
>> <ServerManagerConfiguration>
>>   <ProxyGroup name="filters">
>>
>> 	   <SourceProxy name="BurgerVector" class="vtkBurgerVectorFilter">
>> 	     <InputProperty
>> 	        name="Input"
>> 	        command="SetInputConnection">
>> 	          <ProxyGroupDomain name="groups">
>> 	            <Group name="sources"/>
>> 	            <Group name="filters"/>
>> 	          </ProxyGroupDomain>
>> 	          <DataTypeDomain name="input_type">
>> 	            <DataType value="vtkUnstructuredGrid"/>
>> 	          </DataTypeDomain>
>> 	     </InputProperty>
>> 	
>> 	     <DoubleVectorProperty
>> 	        name="BurgerVector"
>> 	        command="SetBurgerVector"
>> 	        number_of_elements="3"
>> 	        default_values="0.0 0.0 0.0">
>> 	     </DoubleVectorProperty>
>> 	   </SourceProxy>
>> 	  </ProxyGroup>
>> </ServerManagerConfiguration>
>>
>> I tried wading through the wiki but I am no longer sure what  
>> applies to PV 2 and what applies to PV 3
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Mike Jackson
>> imikejackson & gmail * com
>>
>>
>>
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