[Paraview] Custom display panel for a source or filter

[Clinton Stimpson]

To add a bit more on the compiling side of it...  there is a CMake macro 
in ParaView3/CMake/ParaViewPlugins.cmake called 
ADD_PARAVIEW_DISPLAY_PANEL().  You can follow what it does, but you 
can't use that macro directly because the implementation it creates for 
pqDisplayPanelInterface assumes you have your own representation your're 
making a panel for.  In your case, you're making a panel for an existing 
representation.

Then you call ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN() and don't forget to fill in the 
GUI_INTERFACE argument yourself since you aren't using any macros that 
give you that.

Clint

Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> In your plugin, you need to implement the pqDisplayPanelInterface 
> (just what the pqStandardDisplayPanels in 
> pqDisplayProxyEditorWidget.cxx does) and the register it with the 
> plugin manager. If you look at 
> pqDisplayProxyEditorWidget::updatePanel, you'll see that it checks for 
> all pqDisplayPanelInterface implementations registered and asks them 
> to create the panel for the source.
>
> Utkarsh
>
>
> Robert Maynard wrote:
>>
>> Last time I asked the same question, I was told I would have to 
>> include the xmlName of my class to the conditional statement, and 
>> recompile paraview to get custom display panels like TextSource to work.
>>
>> On Jan 3, 2008 9:12 AM, Paul Edwards <paul.m.edwards at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:paul.m.edwards at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I am trying to provide a custom display panel for a plugin I have
>>     created.  The plugin is for a new source which is a subclass of
>>     vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader (the plot3d file is generated from inputs
>>     selected in the object panel) and I would like to customize the
>>     display options for my users.
>>
>>     I can see this is done for "TextSource" and "TimeToTextConverter"
>>     but when looking through the code (pqObjectBuilder.cxx, line 400)
>>     there is a conditional statement to check specifically for these
>>     sources.  Does this mean that it is not possible from a plugin? (Or
>>     am I looking in the wrong place here?)
>>
>>     Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance,
>>     Paul
>>
>>     PS Great software ;)
>>
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