[Paraview] Two input plugin not available

David Doria daviddoria at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 20:04:08 EDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> Filters have different ways of specifying inputs: you can have
> multiple input connections on an input port, and/or you can have
> multiple input ports.
> Your filter is a multi-input port filter which accepts a single
> connection on each of the 2 ports. If user selects, multiple sources
> in the pipeline browser, ParaView assumes multiple connections on an
> input port, thus enabling only those filters that have the "Input"
> property such that it accepts multiple connections (like the Append
> filter, Group Datasets filter etc.).
>
> For multiple input ports, ParaView convention is that you simply
> select the value for one input port; ParaView will popup a input
> selection dialog to allow user to explicitly specify the sources for
> the other input ports.

Very cool. I added a small not to that effect on the wiki:
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Filters_with_Multiple_Input_Ports

Thanks,

David


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