[Paraview] how to add custom filter to custom menu

[burlen]

Hi,

Since it was so straight forward I tested it. Here is an example adding 
the menu with a filter.

Burlen

On 08/31/2011 12:32 PM, Burlen Loring wrote:
> Hi Kate,
>
> There's also an easy way to create a toolbar via xml (example below, 
> add "show_in_toolbar" and "icon"attributes).
>
> <ParaViewFilters>
> <Category name="Common" menu_label="&amp;Common" preserve_order="1"
>     show_in_toolbar="1">
> <Proxy group="filters" name="Calculator" 
> icon=":/pqWidgets/Icons/pqCalculator24.png"/>
> </Category>
> </ParaViewFilters>
>
> But you are asking about menus...
>
> On the wiki there is some info about adding menus 
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_a_Menu it's almost the 
> same as adding a toolbar.There is an example of a toolbar that creates 
> sources, Examples/Plugins/SourceToolbar to work from. That shows how 
> to create a source but you need a filter.
>
> The difference between creating sources and filters is that for 
> filters you have to specify the filters input (see 
> pqObjectBuilder::createFilter).
>
> here is a snippet that would locate the selected sources. I think you 
> could use this to get the source for your filter. Then it will be an 
> easy change to the SourceToolbar example.
>
>     pqApplicationCore* core = pqApplicationCore::instance();
>     pqServerManagerSelection sels = 
> *core->getSelectionModel()->selectedItems();
>     pqPipelineSource* source = 0;
>     pqServerManagerModelItem* item = 0;
>     if(sels.empty())
>     {
>         return NULL;
>     }
>     pqServerManagerSelection::ConstIterator iter = sels.begin();
>
>     item = *iter;
>     source = dynamic_cast<pqPipelineSource*>(item);
>
> Sorry to be so imprecise, and note I have't tried this. Hope it helps
> Burlen
>
> On 08/31/2011 11:14 AM, FISSELL at pitt.edu wrote:
>> Hi Burlen,
>>
>> Thanks for getting back to me.  Yes, I am aware of the submenu option.
>> That's plan B if I can't use a separate menu.
>> It was so easy to create the menu, I would be sort of suprised if
>> it wasn't equally easy to populate it...
>>
>> thanks
>> Kate
>>
>>
>>> 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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