[Paraview] Branding: Active element w/o pipeline browser

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

How about something like the "Statistics View" in ParaView? Depending
on your application, may be just a flat list showing the pipeline
objects may suffice.

Utkarsh

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've finally started taking a closer look at the new ParaView "Branding"
> (off of Utkarsh's git repository), and first of all I'd like to say that you
> have done an amazing job so far! This is going to make it so much easier to
> create custom-built PV-based applications.
>
> I was looking at the Clone2 CustomApplication example (paraview_revised_2
> app) which has a lot of standard PV, but doesn't include the pipeline
> browser. This is interesting to me because I think there will be cases when
> my users will want as simple an interface as possible, so I was wondering
> whether one function of the Pipeline Browser could be reproduced in another
> way:
>
> If there is only a single data set loaded, with a linear pipeline, then the
> most recently applied filter/data is shown in the Object Inspector, and it's
> easy to change display parameters. If there are multiple data sets loaded,
> each with some filters applied, then without a Pipeline Browser there is no
> way to switch back and forth between the two currently displayed
> representations (if that is the right term) to change their display
> parameters, or add new filters to their branch of the pipeline.
>
> Is there some natural way of adding another selection mode or tool that
> would let you click on an object in the 3D render view and it would make
> that representation (pipeline element) the active one, just like you can by
> clicking on an element in the Pipeline Browser?
>
> Thanks again for all the nice work,
> -Eric
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Eric E Monson
> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>
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