[Paraview] Readers and multiple arrays

[Thorsten Hater]

Hi,

ok, this is what wanted to now. I suppose this implies, that my
plugin has to expose a member function of the signature

void GetThetaStartRange(int lower, int upper);

and sets its arguments to the correct values.

    Thorsten

Utkarsh Ayachit schrieb:
> Here's a snippet of the XML that makes it possible for a domain to
> depend on an information property whose values are obtained from  the
> server.
>
>       <DoubleVectorProperty name="StartThetaInfo"
>         command="GetStartThetaRange"
>         information_only="1"
>         number_of_elements="2"
>         default_values="1 1024">
>        <SimpleDoubleInformationHelper />
>       </DoubleVectorProperty>
>
>       <DoubleVectorProperty
>          name="StartTheta"
>          command="SetStartTheta"
>          information_property="StartThetaInfo"
>          number_of_elements="1"
>          animateable="1"
>          default_values="0" >
>         <DoubleRangeDomain name="range" >
>           <RequiredProperties>
>               <Property name="StartThetaInfo" function="RangeInfo"/>
>           </RequiredProperties>
>         </DoubleRangeDomain>
>       </DoubleVectorProperty>
>
> The key is to merely refer to the information property as
> "RequiredProperties" for the domain.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
>   
>> Utkarsh,
>>
>> You’re the expert on server manager XML.  Can you explain how to set a range
>> domain that depends on something else (like an information property)?
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>
>> On 3/23/09 9:23 AM, "Thorsten Hater" <th at tp1.rub.de> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks a lot, my plugin is working quite nice.
>> One question remains: how do I get the GUI to
>> take non-default values for Sliders for example?
>> More concrete: I have got a file on disk, parsed
>> its metainfo and now I want to put some of it
>> in the GUI to allow subdomain selection.
>> The paraview book mentions the SimpleInformationHelper
>> but does neither explain how it used nor how specific
>> variables are set with it, for example Slider min-max...
>>
>> Thorsten
>>
>> Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
>>     
>>> In your reader class method that sets which variables to load, is it
>>> calling this->Modified.  If Modified is not called, then the pipeline
>>> will not know that something has changed for your reader and it will
>>> not request a new read.
>>>
>>> -Ken
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/17/09 3:20 AM, "Thorsten Hater" <th at tp1.rub.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hello again,
>>>
>>>     solved this problem. But encountered a new minor one,
>>>     which is to dynamically reread the file if the GUI elements
>>>     change, for example, if some more arrays are select.
>>>     Could anybody point me where to start?
>>>     I guess that there is some kind of onUpdata callback,
>>>     but how is it called exactly and how is it used?
>>>
>>>     Best regards,
>>>         Thorsten
>>>
>>>     Thorsten Hater wrote:
>>>     > Hi,
>>>     >
>>>     > could anybody give me some information on the problem of
>>>     > adding multiple arrays to a single output of a reader.
>>>     > Managing and displaying the array names GUI-wise is not
>>>     > problematic, but rather where to put the data arrays in the
>>>     > RequestData member.
>>>     >
>>>     > Best regards,
>>>     >    Thorsten
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>>
>>    ****      Kenneth Moreland
>>     ***      Sandia National Laboratories
>> ***********
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