[Paraview] Is is possible to create second filters menu?

[Kit Chambers]

Ok, 

Here's what I have so far:

The filters for the new menu are given a different ProxyGroup name
("myfiltergroup" ) in the XML i.e 
<ServerManagerConfiguration>
  <ProxyGroup name="myfiltergroup">
   <SourceProxy name="MyCellDerivatives" class="vtkCellDerivatives"
label="My Cell Derivatives">
     <Documentation
        long_help="Create point attribute array by projecting points
onto an elevation vector."
        short_help="Create a point array representing elevation.">
     </Documentation>
     <InputProperty
        name="Input"
        command="SetInputConnection">
           <ProxyGroupDomain name="filters">
             <Group name="sources"/>
             <Group name="filters"/>
           </ProxyGroupDomain>
           <DataTypeDomain name="input_type">
             <DataType value="vtkDataSet"/>
           </DataTypeDomain>
      </InputProperty>
   </SourceProxy>
</ProxyGroup>
</ServerManagerConfiguration>


Then I define a menu builder function which is called from the
MainWindow app.

void MyMenuBuilders::buildSecondFiltersMenu(QMenu* menu, QMainWindow*
mainWindow)
{
  pqProxyGroupMenuManager* mgr =
    new pqProxyGroupMenuManager(menu, "mysetfilters");
  mgr->setRecentlyUsedMenuSize(10);
  new RosieProcessingMenuReactions(mgr);

  new pqUpdateProxyDefinitionsBehavior(
    pqUpdateProxyDefinitionsBehavior::ANY, "myfiltergroup", mgr);
  pqPVApplicationCore::instance()->registerForQuicklaunch(menu);

  if (mainWindow)
  {
    // create toolbars for categories as needed.
    new pqCategoryToolbarsBehavior(mgr, mainWindow);
  }
}


I can specify various filters to be loaded at startup by putting them
inside the mysetfilters XML  (i.e. just like the ParaViewFilters XML
object). However, The when the above server manager XML is used a plugin
it doesn't come up in the menu.

Any ideas as to what I'm missing here? Any guidance is welcome.

Kit




On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 16:27 -0400, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:

> You are on the right track. Any proxy registered in the "filters"
> group from the plugins will automatically end up in the "Filters"
> menu, there's no way around it. The solution would be create a new
> group for your filters that's being shown in your menu. Theoretically,
> it should work, but I don't think we test it, but definitely worth a
> try.
> 
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Kit Chambers
> <kit.chambers at rocktalkimaging.com> wrote:
> 
>         Dear all 
>         
>         Is it possible to create a second filters menu which I specify
>         plugin filters to be added to?
>         
>         I can create a static menu from the main application using
>         pqProxyGroupMenuManager() with the appropriate XML but cannot
>         work out how to specify make filters from plugins go to the
>         new menu rather than the filters menu. I guess I would like to
>         be able to do something like specify a ProxyGroup (i.e.
>         <ProxyGroup name="MyGroup"> ... )  in the plugin XML which
>         puts filters in the new menu rather than in with the filters
>         as a normal <ProxyGroup name="filters"> does.
>         
>         Any suggestions and or help is welcome.
>         
>         Kit
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
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Kit Chambers

Principal Geophysicist
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Direct: +44 1872 879 007
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