[Paraview] adding existing VTK filter without recompiling

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Have you tried created a custom filter containing the programmable filter with your script?  Once it is a custom filter you can export that to XML and let other users import it.

-Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
> On Behalf Of Sean Ziegeler
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:30 AM
> To: clinton at elemtech.com
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] adding existing VTK filter without recompiling
>
> I wonder, would the ability to load server manager XML and client QRC
> files at run time allow me to distribute, e.g., a specific python
> script, to others and it show up as a unique reader/filter/writer with
> its own GUI widgets?
>
> That would be more elegant and less tedious than the current way of
> doing things, in which I just tell them "paste the following script into
> the Programmable Filter and modify the parameters inside the script as
> needed."
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
> clinton at elemtech.com wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 April 2008 4:20:46 pm Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> >> Clint,
> >>
> >> Great job as usual.  If you have not already, please add a description
> of
> >> this new functionality to the Wiki.
> >
> > Its already there:
> > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ExtendingParaView#Loading_XML_at_runtime
> >
> > Clint
> >
> >> -Ken
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org
> >>> [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of
> clinton at elemtech.com
> >>> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:10 PM
> >>> To: paraview at paraview.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] adding existing VTK filter without recompiling
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The CVS version of ParaView will allow you to load server manager xml
> >>> files
> >>> without building plugins.  It also supports loading Client side qrc
> files
> >>> to
> >>> add readers and writers without building plugins.
> >>>
> >>> Clint
> >>>
> >>> On Wednesday 23 April 2008 8:52:29 pm Greg Ushomirsky wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm trying to add an existing VTK filter to Paraview 3.2.1 for
> Windows
> >>>> that I downloaded from Paraview.org. I'm trying to follow the
> >>>> instructions on the wiki page
> >>>> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Extend. That page gives an
> >>>> example of two XML files that would be needed to make the existing
> >>>> vtkCellDerivatives filter accessible through the menus.  I followed
> >>>> the instructions, made the two XML files, and them, as the
> >>>> instructions suggest:
> >>>>
> >>>> To load the XML file into the ParaView, we will go to menu File and
> >>>> select Import Package. This will popup a dialog in which we can
> select
> >>>> the appropriate XML file.
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, I go to the File menu, but there is no Import Package option!!
> >>>>
> >>>> So, do I really need to build paraview myself in order to add an
> >>>> existing filter?  Or am I missing something in the instructions??
> >>>> Sure, I could build a plugin, but that requires building paraview
> from
> >>>> source as well.
> >>>>
> >>>> thanks for the help,
> >>>> Greg
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