[Paraview] Readers and multiple arrays

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

The signature should me more like:

vtkGetVector2Macro(StartThetaRange, double);

with:
double StartThetaRange[2];

Utkarsh


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Thorsten Hater <th at tp1.rub.de> wrote:
> 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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>>>
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>>>    ***      Sandia National Laboratories
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