[Paraview] Paraview writer doesn't work

[clinton at elemtech.com]

On Tuesday 02 September 2008 8:48:11 am Rafael March Castañeda Neto wrote:
> Hey Paraview Community,
>
> I'm having problems in setting a paraview writer to work.
>
> A friend of mine has programmed a writer, and in his machine it compiles
> and works fine. He sent me the source code and I managed to cmake it and to
> compile it, with MS Visual Studio 2005 and pointing to a Paraview 3.2.3
> distribution in my computer. I've already set my environment variable
> PV_PLUGIN_PATH to a folder called ParaviewPlugins, where I put all the
> dll's of the plugins which I want to load with Paraview. When I open the
> program, I go to the option "Manage Plugins..." in "Tools", and can see all
> the plugins whose dll's are in the ParaviewPlugins folder, including my
> writer. Every other plugin is working just fine, but I can't manage to save
> a file in the extension specified in my writer's code.
>
> Does anybody have an idea of what's going on ? I

Are you sure the qrc file got compiled into the plugin that shows up in your 
list of loaded plugins?
http://paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_a_custom_filter.2C_reader_or_writer

Clint