[Paraview] Custom Filters MENU

[Eric E. Monson]

Hey again,

Thanks Utkarsh -- with your description I was able to figure out how  
to put a custom filter in some servermanager xml to load it through a  
plugin. I was also able to combine this with some GUI xml which adds a  
new menu item and puts the custom filter there, plus a custom icon for  
the menu (by using CMake and building against ParaView).

In reading through the Plugin HowTo, though, it seems to imply that  
both the icon and the GUI xml can be combined into a binary .bqrc file  
(using Qt's rcc) so that I could do all of this without having to  
build against ParaView (and just load servermanager xml and bqrc  
through the Plugin Manager).

I can load the servermanager xml and use the filter, but I can't seem  
to get the menu item and/or icon to show up when I load the bqrc file  
-- is there a special way to build the qrc and GUI xml together with  
rcc to make this work?

Thanks a lot,
-Eric


On Apr 30, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:

> What I mean by a plugin for a custom filter, is almost like a new
> plugin for a filter with the servermanager xml and the gui xmls
> however, instead of a new filter, the servermanager xml will inlcude
> the custom filter definition. Having said that, it may a good feature
> request to add support for specifying filter menu category in cpd
> files. Please feel free to add a feature request to the bug tracker.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Eric E. Monson  
> <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> For my users, too, I've been thinking that it would be nice if all  
>> custom
>> filters showed up in a special menu item by themselves.
>>
>> I'm having trouble understanding, Utkarsh, what you mean by "a  
>> plugin that
>> provides the custom filter you want"... Is it possible for a plugin  
>> to just
>> load cpd files? Could you please clarify that point a bit?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> -Eric
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Eric E Monson
>> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>>
>>
>> On Apr 30, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>
>>> Menu position cannot be controlled from the cpd files. You can  
>>> write a
>>> plugin that provides the custom filter you want and then add it to  
>>> the
>>> custom menu.
>>>
>>> Utkarsh
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Jacques Papper  
>>> <jpapper at ara.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> When I write my own plugin filters, I can choose to have them  
>>>> appear in a
>>>> menu of my choice rather than having them under Alphabetical.
>>>> I would like to modify the .cpd files of custom filters so that  
>>>> some
>>>> custom
>>>> filters appear in another menu than Alphabetical as well. How do  
>>>> I do
>>>> this ?
>>>> Is this supported ?
>>>>
>>>> Jacques PAPPER
>>>> Applied CFD Team Leader
>>>> Tel: +44 (0) 1234 324677
>>>>
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