[Paraview] File Series Reader as a Plugin

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Sean,

I am a little confused.  Are you saying that there exists a reader in ParaView that you want to use to load in a file series?  And the issue is that because the reader already exists in ParaView in the "sources" group and you cannot move it to "internal_sources" or some other naming conflict?

If this is the case, I don't think there is anything special you have to do.  Just make a new <FileSeriesReaderProxy> tag in the "sources" group.  The Reader subproxy can be in any group; it does not mater if it also came from "sources".  The FileSeriesReaderProxy can also co-exist with the single file reader so long as they have unique names.  You can also make your reader read files with the same file extension; ParaView will use the plugin reader instead of the one defined in ParaView.

-Ken


On 1/8/09 12:19 PM, "Sean Ziegeler" <sean.ziegeler at nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:

I'd like to write a plugin that makes the Meta format time-aware.  I've
looked at: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series .

 From that, I see that I can modify
VTK/Servers/ServerManager/Resources/reader.xml, but I'd prefer it to be
plugin that I can send to someone else with requiring a complete rebuild
of Paraview/VTK.  It should be possible to write a .xml file that gets
loaded as a plugin and that wraps the Meta reader in a vtkFileSeriesReader.

However, if I do it without modifying readers.xml, the original Meta
reader does not get moved to a different ProxyGroup.  Does that mean my
new Meta Series reader won't ever be used?  Is there some other way to
do it that doesn't require a rebuild of Paraview?

Thanks,
Sean

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