[Paraview] Reloading plugins after recompiling them

[Biddiscombe, John A.]

unloading a plugin from memory and reloading it is not supported (and probably never will be)

Restart pv to reload the plugin

JB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
> On Behalf Of David Doria
> Sent: 28 April 2010 23:07
> To: ParaView
> Subject: [Paraview] Reloading plugins after recompiling them
> 
> Consider that I have built a .so plugin (call it vtkTest).
> 
> - I have the vtkTest plugin loaded in Paraview
> - Then I make a change to vtkTest.cxx and recompile the plugin .so
> - I go to Tools -> Plugin Manager
> - Select vtkTest and click "Remove"
> - Click "Load New"
> - Select the new vtkTest.so
> - Attempt to run the filter
> 
> It seems to use the OLD version of the filter. If I restart Paraview
> and then load the plugin, the new version is used.
> 
> Does anyone else have this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
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