[Paraview] Creating a 2D plot programmatically

[clinton at elemtech.com]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 8:57:21 am Mike Jackson wrote:
> I will be creating some custom readers in the next few weeks and the
> data in those the data files are just XY plot type data, Not 3D at
> all. Is there a way to have the reader, through a custom GUI plugin
> possibly, instantiate a new 2D plot view and have the data rendered
> in the 2D plot view instead of rendered in the 3D view?
>

Yes.  If your readers output a vtkRectilinearGrid with your data as point 
data, ParaView will create an xy plot view instead of putting it in the 3d 
view.  Have a look at the vtkExtractTemporalFieldData class.

Clint