[Paraview] missing wavefront/obj reader

Mark Olesen Mark.Olesen at emconTechnologies.com
Wed Feb 3 11:00:43 EST 2010


On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 10:31 -0500, Berk Geveci wrote:
> I am guessing it is an oversight.
> 
> -berk
> 
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Mark Olesen
> <Mark.Olesen at emcontechnologies.com> wrote:
> > I was recently had some .obj files to view and noticed to my surprise
> > that ParaView doesn't support reading them - I'd guess since they aren't
> > mentioned in the Servers/ServerManager/Resources/readers.xml
> >
> > Is there any reason that they aren't enabled? Or just an oversight?


Who at kitware can make a commit with
   "BUG: Added missing vtkOBJReader to ServerManager Resources"
?


An example of the (trivial) change required is attached.


/mark
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diff --git a/Servers/ServerManager/Resources/readers.xml b/Servers/ServerManager/Resources/readers.xml
index 43e28a1..9ed6239 100644
--- a/Servers/ServerManager/Resources/readers.xml
+++ b/Servers/ServerManager/Resources/readers.xml
@@ -3377,6 +3377,30 @@
    <!-- End byureader -->
    </SourceProxy>

+   <SourceProxy name="byureader" class="vtkOBJReader" label="Wavefront OBJ Reader">
+     <Documentation
+       short_help="Read Wavefront .OBJ files."
+       long_help="Read Wavefront .OBJ files to produce polygonal data.">
+       The OBJ reader reads data stored in Wavefront .OBJ format.
+       The expected file extension is .obj, the datasets resulting from reading these files are polygonal.
+     </Documentation>
+     <StringVectorProperty
+        name="FileName"
+        animateable="0"
+        command="SetFileName"
+        number_of_elements="1">
+        <FileListDomain name="files"/>
+        <Documentation>
+          This property specifies the file name for the OBJ reader.
+        </Documentation>
+     </StringVectorProperty>
+     <Hints>
+      <ReaderFactory extensions="obj"
+          file_description="Wavefront OBJ Files"/>
+     </Hints>
+   <!-- End vtkOBJReader -->
+   </SourceProxy>
+
    <SourceProxy name="gaussiancubereader" class="vtkGaussianCubeReader"
                 label="Gaussian Cube Reader">
      <Documentation


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