[Paraview] Strugging with 3D widgets and plugins

[clinton at elemtech.com]

I used the vtkContourWidget with my own subclass of 
vtkOrientedGlyphContourRepresentation, so I wasn't doing it from scratch.
However, ParaView didn't have any support for that so integrating it into 
ParaView would be the same as any other made from scratch.

Clint

On Monday 07 July 2008 11:10:30 am Paul Edwards wrote:
> Clinton,
>
> Did you actually manage to get your own 3d widget as a plugin or were
> you reusing an existing one?  I'm still unsure how to get this
> working.  Do you have any example code for it?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
> 2008/7/7  <clinton at elemtech.com>:
> > On Friday 04 July 2008 8:50:26 am Paul Edwards wrote:
> >> I've read on the list that it is possible to create 3D widgets as
> >> plugins:
> >>
> >> http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2008-March/007315.html
> >>
> >> I have attempted this using the LineWidgetSource in the ParaView
> >> source code.  I just search for all files relating the the line widget
> >> and renamed all files and classes.  Then I tried to make plugins for
> >> it.  The plugins it creates does not seem to use the pq* classes.
> >> Have I missed something in the XML?  I have attached my source code.
> >>
> >> [Note: My aim is to create a widget for moving points in a structured
> >> mesh - hence MoveableMesh!]
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated,
> >> Paul
> >
> > The recognized 3d widget sub-panels that get embeded in an object panel
> > are hardcoded in ParaView.  I had to make my own object panel to get my
> > 3d widget sub-panels to show up, and you could do the same.  The
> > hardcoding probably needs to be removed and replaced with something that
> > allows customizing.
> >
> > Clint