[Paraview] vtkJPEGReader as Plugin - Loading Volumes

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

The problem seems to be that you are using the Pattern incorrectly. It
should be of the form: "%s/image%d.jpg" where %s gets replaced by the
directory while %d gets replaced by the slice number.

Utkarsh

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Christian Werner
<christian.werner at rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm having trouble getting the vtkJPEGReader to work properly as plugin.
> Specifically I don't know how to set up the approriate .xml file. It works
> with command="SetFileName" perfectly, but that way I am getting the first
> slice only. I see that one should use SetFilePrefix and/or SetFilePattern,
> but how can I make Paraview pass the appropriate parameters to the plugin??
>
> This is how my .xml looks like, it's just a guess, I really don't know
> better:
>
> <ServerManagerConfiguration>
>  <ProxyGroup name="sources">
>  <SourceProxy name="JPEGImageReader"
>               class="vtkJPEGReader"
>               label="JPEG reader">
>    <Documentation
>      short_help="Read a JPEG file."
>      long_help="Read a JPEG file into an image data.">
>      The JPEG image reader reads JPG files, and the output is a uniform
> rectilinear (image/volume) dataset. The default file extension is .jpg.
>    </Documentation>
>   #will become e.g. /home/christian/jpegs
>    <StringVectorProperty
>       name="Files"
>       animateable="0"
>       command="SetFilePrefix"
>       number_of_elements="1">
>       <FileListDomain name="files"/>
>       <Documentation>
>         This property specifies the File Prefix for the JPEG reader.
>       </Documentation>
>       <Hints>
>         <UseDirectoryName />
>       </Hints>
>    </StringVectorProperty>
>    #file pattern
>    <StringVectorProperty
>      name="Pattern"
>      animateable="0"
>      command="SetFilePattern"
>      number_of_elements="1"
>      default_value="/*.jpg">
>    </StringVectorProperty>
>  <!-- End JPEGImageReader -->
>  </SourceProxy>
>  </ProxyGroup>
> </ServerManagerConfiguration>
>
> With that, I get
>
> Unable to open file /home/christian/jpges.0
>
>
> when trying to open a set of jpges...
>
> Does anyone have any idea? I'd also like to know where there is
> documentation on all these markups like what you can put in <Hint>, etc..
>
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
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