[Paraview] Reloading plugins after recompiling them

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

"Remove" doesn't unload a plugin, it simply removes it from the list.
In fact unloading a plugin is not supported (and won't be supported
anytime soon). You've have to restart ParaView.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:06 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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