[Paraview] Adding some Meta Data to a vtkUnstructuredGrid

[Mike Jackson]

On Sep 18, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Kent Eschenberg wrote:

> Mike Jackson wrote:
>> Is there a mechanism in place that would allow me to add some meta  
>> data to a vtkUnstructuredGrid object? Something like the key:value  
>> thing in the pipelines?
>
> Isn't that an inherent property of C++? Define
>
>    class myUnstructuredGrid : public vtkUnstructuredGrid
>    {
>       int myNewData;
>    }
>
> then pass pointers to myUnstructuredGrid wherever pointers to  
> vtkUnstructuredGrid are needed.
>
> Kent
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

I had thought about that but I was not sure how paraview would react  
to having MyUnstructuredGrid returned instead of vtkUnstructuredGrid.  
I know what _should_ happen assuming kitware abstracted everything  
correctly.. just didn't want any surprises.

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Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
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