[Paraview] Adding Reader Plugin to "Files of Type" dialogue

[burlen]

  Hi Peter,

The way PV learns about plugin reader extensions changed some time ago. 
The place we specify the file extension association moved from the gui 
xml to the server manager xml in the SourceProxy's hints.

Here are the modified XML files.

<!-- CSVImage.xml -->
<ServerManagerConfiguration>
<ProxyGroup name=”sources”>
<SourceProxy
name=”CSVImageReader”
class=”vtkCSVImageReader”>

<StringVectorProperty
name=”FileName”
command=”SetFileName”
number_of_elements=”1”>
<FileListDomain name=”files”/>
</StringVectorProperty>

<StringVectorProperty
name=”FieldDelimiterCharacters”
command=”SetFieldDelimiterCharacters”
number_of_elements=”1”
default_values=”,”/>

<!-- This is how PV now makes the association -->
<Hints>
<ReaderFactory
extensions="csvimg"
file_description="blah blah blah."/>
</Hints>

</SourceProxy>
</ProxyGroup>
</ServerManagerConfiguration>
<!-- EOF -->

<!-- CSVImageGUI.xml -->
<ParaViewReaders>

<!-- No information about file extension association -->
<Proxy group="sources" name="CSVImageReader" />

</ParaViewReaders>
<!-- EOF -->

Hope this helps
Burlen

Ps. I think the gui xml is now optional.





On 11/03/2010 02:14 PM, Peter Schmitt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I cannot get my reader into ParaView's "File -> Open" dialog. I am 
> following the "CSVImageReader" tutorial here:
> http://www.kitware.com/products/html/WritingAParaViewReaderPlug-in.html
>
> I built ParaView-3.8.1 from source using qt-4.5.3 on my 64-bit Linux 
> workstation (FWIW, I've also tried this on my Mac OSX 10.5.8 box using 
> Nokia's qt-4.6.2 dmg release for 10.5+). I built the libCSVImage.so 
> after adding the following to the top of vtkCSVImageReader.cxx:
>
>     #include "vtkCSVImageReader.h"
>     #include "vtkDataArray.h"
>     #include "vtkImageData.h"
>     #include "vtkInformation.h"
>     #include "vtkInformationVector.h"
>     #include "vtkObjectFactory.h"
>     #include "vtkPointData.h"
>     #include "vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline.h"
>     #include "vtkTable.h"
>     #include "vtkVariant.h"
>     vtkStandardNewMacro(vtkCSVImageReader);
>
>
> I start up ParaView, goto "Tools -> Manage Plugins -> Load New ..." 
> and I now see "CSVImage" as "Loaded" in the "Local Plugins" pane. 
> However, the "File -> Open" menu doesn't show the CSVImage type.
>
> When I attempt to open a *.csvimg file, I am prompted with a dialog 
> titled "Open Data WIth ..." saying "A reader for 
> /home/schmitt/paraview/testData/test.csvimg" could not be found. 
> Please choose one:" and a list of 22 readers ("POP Ocean" through 
> "TecPlot", but no CSVImage type.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thank you,
> Pete Schmitt
>
>
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