[Paraview] Creating Plugins

[Benjamin Schindler]

Hi

I appended a plugin which makes the wrapper hang here.
Please note - I ripped tons of code out the filter which leaves it in an 
uncompilable state - but that's not the point. It makes the wrapper hang 
and that's it

Cheers
Benjamin

Berk Geveci wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> I can't reproduce this. Can you provide an example plugin that
> demonstrates the problem?
>
> -berk
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Schindler  Benjamin
> <bschindler at student.ethz.ch> wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I think found the problem.
>>
>> When I have:
>>
>> //BTX
>> something
>> // ETX
>>
>> (note the space between the comment and the ETX)
>> This has caused the hang here
>>
>> Cheers
>> Benjamin
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Moreland, Kenneth [mailto:kmorel at sandia.gov]
>> Gesendet: Mo 22.12.2008 17:42
>> An: Schindler  Benjamin; Michael Jackson
>> Cc: ParaView
>> Betreff: Re: [Paraview] Creating Plugins
>>
>> Benjamin,
>>
>> I don't think any of the developers are aware of bug that causes the VTK wrapping parser to hang.  Could you send us a piece of code that demonstrates the problem?
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>
>> On 12/19/08 6:33 AM, "Benjamin Schindler" <bschindler at student.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>
>> I just renamed the baseclass now (It is not inside a library so that's
>> no issue) and the parser seems to accept this. Adding //btx //etx works
>> but that's not really an ideal solution. IMHO, the grammar of the parser
>> should be changed for such things to be possible.
>>
>> I'm using the svn version of paraview and the parser seems to hang but
>> it doesn't report an error. I assume that's a bug which will be fixed
>> pretty soon
>>
>> Thanks
>> Benjamin
>> Michael Jackson wrote:
>>     
>>> Not sure about the multiple inheritance issue but for methods that
>>> don't take vtk type primitives surround the method declaration with
>>> the following:
>>>
>>> //btx
>>> void SomeFunction(... );
>>> //etx
>>>
>>> _________________________________________________________
>>> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>>> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
>>> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 19, 2008, at 7:25 AM, Benjamin Schindler wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to create a paraview plugin out of a filter I'm currently
>>>> writing for my own viewer. I'm hitting several roadblocks with the
>>>> parser:
>>>>
>>>> *** SYNTAX ERROR found in parsing the header blablabla
>>>>
>>>> I currently found the following issues:
>>>>
>>>> class Something; // Not allowed because it does not start with the
>>>> vtk Prefix
>>>>
>>>> class vtkMyFilter: public vtkSomeFilterClass, public MyBaseClass //
>>>> Probably same as above, but I'm not sure
>>>> {
>>>>   void SomeFunction(Eigen::Vector3f& arg); // I assume I can't take
>>>> arguments that are not primitive types or don't have the vtk prefix
>>>> but I'm not sure
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything I can do about these issues?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Benjamin
>>>>
>>>>
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