[Paraview] Building a ParaView plugin

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

You need to compile a plugin and load that, simply loading the XML
wouldn't do. Look at the example in
${ParaViewSource}/Examples/Plugins/Filter to see how to write the
CMakeLists.txt to build such a plugin.

Refer to the Wiki for additional details:
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_a_new_VTK_filter

Utkarsh

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:47 PM, John Haiducek <jhaiduce at gmail.com> wrote:
> I downloaded a new vtk class (vtkAddTetraLayer) from
> http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~blloyd/Extrusion/. I compiled the
> vtkAddTetraLayer.cxx to a shared library. I can then load the plugin using
> the Server Manager XML file, but when I try to use it I get:
>
> ERROR: In
> /home/haiduced/Downloads/ParaView-3.8.1/Servers/Common/vtkProcessModule.cxx,
> line 1065
> vtkProcessModule (0x861b60): Cannot create object of type
> "vtkAddTetraLayer".
> while processing
> Message 0 = New
>   Argument 0 = string_value {vtkAddTetraLayer}
>   Argument 1 = id_value {1068}
>
>
>
> ERROR: In
> /home/haiduced/Downloads/ParaView-3.8.1/Servers/Common/vtkProcessModule.cxx,
> line 1066
> vtkProcessModule (0x861b60): Aborting execution for debugging purposes.
>
> So ParaView doesn't know about this vtk class. Is there a way to tell
> ParaView that the class is defined in the shared library
> vtkAddTetraLayer.so? Is there a way to access this new class from ParaView
> without recompiling VTK and ParaView from scratch?
>
> John Haiducek
>
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