[Paraview] Extension from Plugin-Reader does not apper - QT 4.4 issue?

[Moreland, Kenneth]

There are not quite enough details here to say exactly what your problem might be.  Rather, I will try to answer your specific questions.

* The extension(s) you specify in the Reader tag of your GUI_RESOURCE_FILES (along with the file description) should show up in the file types combo box of the open file dialog.  Your extension will be at the bottom.  Repeats are OK (with caveats), so the extensions should show up regardless).
* I don't think there is anything wrong with your configuration so long as you are building ParaView and the plugin with the same configuration.
* I'm not sure what happens when you "reload" a plugin.  However, I just realized that I accidentally set up one of my reader plugins to be loaded into my ParaView twice on startup for about a week now, and it has worked fine.  In any case, if your plugin is properly loaded, it will show up in the Manage Plugins/Extensions dialog box.  If it is there, there should be no reason to need to load it again.
* I'm not familiar with the vtkGAMBITReader or the details of your format, it it sounds like a good enough place to start.  In any case, the choice should have no impact on whether you see the reader in the plugin show up in ParaView.

-Ken
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From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Wein [fwein at web.de]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:56 AM
To: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: [Paraview] Extension from Plugin-Reader does not apper - QT 4.4 issue?

Hi,

I want to write a Reader for Paraview (I guess a plugin is better than
directly
hacking into the Paraview source).

As I have to base on an vtkUnstructuredGridAlgorithm I cloned the
vtkGAMBITReader
as it was the shortest (Only change of name, no functionality yet).
I follwed the Plugin-HowTO and with the help of the XML files
in the examples section and was able to compile a plugin. The
extension I use is .h5
(but we do not want to use the HDF5 reader but our own stuff).
SYSTEM_HDF5 is disabled.

When I load the Plugin no .h5 extension appears in the file open dialog.

I have several (starters) questions:

* Shall the extension appear there?
* I use OpenSuse 11.0 64bit with QT 4.4 - Paraview compiles nice after
commenting
  the WARNING() in the cmake file.
  - Can this be the reason for the problem?
  - What actually is the QT 4.4 issue? It compiles ...
* When I load a plugin again, is it reloaded?
* Is vtkGAMBITReader a good start? I found no appropriate extension in
file open.

I just started with the mailing list and did not find something
appropriate yet.

Thanks a lot,

Fabian

P.S.: I have no experience with ParaView yet (we have first to read
our data :))
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