[Paraview] how to add custom filter to custom menu

[Burlen Loring]

Hi,

Did you know that you could create a category in the filters menu by way 
of xml? That puts your filters in their own submenu making them easy to 
find. In your client xml you have something like:

<ParaViewFilters>
<Category name="SciberQuestSciVis" menu_label="Sciber&amp;Quest">
<Proxy group="filters" name="vtkSQDistributedStreamTracer"/>
</Category>
</ParaViewFilters>

Just checking.
Burlen

On 08/31/2011 08:28 AM, FISSELL at pitt.edu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I made a custom filter and added a new dropdown menu to the main
> Paraview menubar, as per wiki tutorials.
> My filter works in the filters menu, and I can call the OK dialog from my
> new menu.
> I would like to add my filter to my new menu and have Paraview understand
> it as,
> and treat it just like, filters in the filter menu.
> I saw this posting very relevant to my question:
> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/paraview/2010-March/016211.html
> but I'd like a little more help.
>
> What program do I put that code snippet in ?  Do I make a special
> client side plugin just to get my filter in my toolbar ?
> Is there a way to do this just via XML specification ?
> Note I am not developing a standalone application, I am just adding plugins
> to ParaView.
> If I put my filter in my custom menu, not the ParaView filters menu,
> will ParaView know my plugin is a filter, eg should be added to pipeline when
> invoked, only be added if datatypes match, etc etc ?
>
> Is it a bad design to create an additional menu of filters rather than
> making a sub-section in the existing filters menu ?  I just think the
> current set of filters is so large it would be easier for our users to make
> a separate menu.
>
> thanks
> kate
>
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