[Paraview] Auto-load plugin failed

[Yumin Yuan]

Great, thanks.

Yumin

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Yumin,
> I submitted a bug reporting this issue. I hope I did it well.
>
>    http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=9803
>
> Best regards,
> Jerome
>
> 2009/10/27 Yumin Yuan <yumin.yuan at kitware.com>
>>
>> Hi Jerome,
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Yumin,
>> >
>> > Compiling my XML to expose VTK native filters produces a so/dll library
>> > that
>> > can be autoloaded in ParaView. However, I would take advantage on the
>> > fact
>> > that this XML may be shared to somebodyelse without the need to own
>> > "ParaView from source". The wiki says: "Alternatively, we can simply
>> > load
>> > the XML from the Plugins Manager (just select the file type to be *.xml
>> > in
>> > the file open dialog)". I want this because of deployment issues see
>> > thread
>> > "About on-line available binaries for next release" )
>> >
>> > - What have I to add in the XML to give him the same behaviour than its
>> > corresponding compiled library?
>> >
>>
>> I think this is probably a bug if you check "Auto Load" for the xml,
>> but it still doesn't auto-load next time.
>> I suggest to log it in the bug tracker.
>>
>> > Furthermore, I thought that my Autostart plugin (called "PVCustomizer")
>> > was
>> > unable to autoload because it depends on my ParaviewVTK XML plugin. But
>> > that
>> > is not the case: Even if I load the native VTK filters description with
>> > the
>> > compiled version, my PVCustomizer is loadable through the GUI, but it
>> > shows
>> > the message "Loaded, but .....\PVCustomizer.dll, is not a server manager
>> > plugin!" and no version is displayed although my CMakeLists contains the
>> > following lines:
>> >
>> > ##################################################
>> > # AUTOSTART PLUGIN --------------------------------------------------
>> >  QT4_WRAP_CPP(MOC_SRCS PVCustomizer.h)
>> >
>> > # Macro for auto-start plugins. We specify the class name
>> > # and the methods to call on startup and shutdown on an instance of that
>> > class.
>> > # It fills IFACES and IFACE_SRCS with proper values as needed by
>> > ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN macro.
>> >  ADD_PARAVIEW_AUTO_START(IFACES IFACE_SRCS
>> >    CLASS_NAME PVCustomizer # the class name for our class
>> >    STARTUP onStartup   # specify the method to call on startup
>> >    SHUTDOWN onShutdown # specify the method to call on shutdown
>> >  )
>> >
>> > # Create a plugin for this starter
>> >  ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN(PVCustomizer "1.0"
>> >    REQUIRED_ON_CLIENT
>> >    GUI_INTERFACES ${IFACES}
>> >    SOURCES PVCustomizer.cxx ${MOC_SRCS} ${IFACE_SRCS}
>> >    REQUIRED_PLUGINS ParaviewVTK)
>> >
>> >  TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES( PVCustomizer VesselExtractionVTK )
>> > ######################################################################
>> >
>> > I checked "Autoload", having no effect when I restart ParaView...
>> >
>> > I looked at the sources, but I cannot understand now why this message is
>> > displayed. I will give a try with a step-by-step procedure.
>> >
>>
>> I assume you "Rebuilt" the plugin after the new changes, and it still
>> displayed the warning? Then, it is a bug.
>>
>> > Thanks a lot for your time, Yumin, and sorry for disturbing...
>>
>> No problem.
>>
>> Yumin
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