[Paraview] Client Side plugins dependent on all server side libraries?

[David E DeMarle]

Here is an example of such cmake code (adapted from
Applications/StreamingParaView)

#define the server side pieces of the plugin
SET(STREAMING_SS_SOURCES
  ...
  vtkVisibilityPrioritizer.cxx
)
SET(SERVER_ARGS
  SERVER_MANAGER_XML StreamingServerWrapping.xml
  SERVER_MANAGER_SOURCES ${STREAMING_SS_SOURCES}
  )

#define the gui side piece of the plugin
IF(PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI)
  FIND_PACKAGE(Qt4)
  IF(QT4_FOUND)

    SET(STREAMING_CS_SOURCES
      ...
      pqStreamingDisplayDecorator.cxx
      )

    # invoke macro to create the streaming view.
    ADD_PARAVIEW_VIEW_MODULE(
      IFACES
      IFACE_SRCS
      VIEW_TYPE pqStreamingRenderView
      VIEW_NAME StreamingView
      VIEW_XML_GROUP views
      VIEW_XML_NAME Streaming
      DISPLAY_XML
      DISLAY_PANEL
      )

    # arguments to create the client side pieces of the plugin
    SET(CLIENT_ARGS
      GUI_INTERFACES
      ${IFACES}
      GUI_SOURCES
      ${STREAMING_CS_SOURCES}
      ${MOC_SRCS}
      ${IFACE_SRCS}
      ${UI_BUILT_SOURCES})
  ENDIF(QT4_FOUND)

ENDIF(PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI)

#combine the server and client sides together into a single plugin
#paraview is smart enough to only load the pieces that make sense
ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN ( StreamingPlugin "1.0"
  ${SERVER_ARGS}
  ${CLIENT_ARGS}
  )

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109



On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Moreland, Kenneth<kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> The thing that has seemed odd to me is this compulsion to split a plugin
> into server and client pieces.  In my not very humble opinion you should
> just place everything in one plugin that is loaded on both client and
> server, which usually makes things much easier for both plugin developer and
> end user.  Add some CMake code to not compile the Qt and GUI stuff if the
> ParaView was not built.
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 6/12/09 1:20 PM, "Michael Jackson" <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info. At least I can stop searching my CMake files..
>
> ---
> Mike Jackson                 www.bluequartz.net
>
>
>
> On Jun 12, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>
>> That's correct, the client have VTK dependencies as well.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Michael Jackson
>> <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>> > wrote:
>> I am trying to write a plugin for ParaView 3.6 which has both a
>> "client" part that has code ONLY dependent on Qt and a server side
>> that has code dependent on Qt, Vtk and one of my own libraries which
>> gets built as part of build system.
>>
>>  After having some issues getting this to compile I started tracking
>> down the dependencies of the Gui side library and the server side
>> library. Turns out the Gui Side library is dependent on all the
>> "server side" stuff like all the vtk libraries. Is this correct?
>> Seems kinda odd to me.
>>
>> Thanks
>> _________________________________________________________
>> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
>> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
>>
>>
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