[Paraview] Empty Object Properties - Custom Reader Plugin

[Karl König]

Xunlei,

Have a look at VTK/IO/vtkAVSucdReader.{h,cxx}, that's a simple
self-contained reader. You'll need to integrate everything (headers,
methods, code blocks etc.) mentioning "DataArraySelection" into your reader.

Karl


Xunlei Wu wrote, On 25.03.2011 11:59:
> Hi Karl,
> Exactly as you said!
> Where should I look? Thanks a lot.
> 
> Best,
> xunlei
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kkoenig11 at web.de [mailto:kkoenig11 at web.de] 
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 6:54 AM
> To: Xunlei Wu
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Empty Object Properties - Custom Reader Plugin
> 
> Xunlei,
> 
> There is no auto-generation of GUI elements for the properties tab of a reader. Your reader has to populate the tab.
> Are you looking for something like "Cell/Point Array Status" to pop up in the properties tab? Like the VTU-XML Reader and many others offer?
> Such that you can select the variables to actually import or ignore while loading, respectively?
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> Xunlei Wu wrote, On 25.03.2011 11:32:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I still cannot figure out why I had such problem. Would you please help?
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> xunlei
>>
>>  
>>
>> *From:*Xunlei Wu
>> *Sent:* Monday, March 21, 2011 8:22 PM
>> *To:* paraview at paraview.org
>> *Subject:* Empty Object Properties - Custom Reader Plugin
>>
>>  
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am writing a reader plugin for ParaView following examples in
>>
>> http://www.kitware.com/products/html/WritingAParaViewReaderPlug-in.htm
>> l
>>
>> However, after the file metadata is read by ::RequestInformation(), 
>> there are no scalar attributes shown in "Object Inspector" -> 
>> "Properties" illustrated in Empty_Object_Inspector_Properties.PNG. 
>> After click "Apply", ::RequestData() gets all the attribute data and 
>> displays the information in "Object Inspector" -> "Information" -> "Data Arrays"
>> table as shown in Updated_Object_Inspector_Information.PNG. After the 
>> data is read, "Properties" page is still empty. Would you please 
>> suggest what I should do? Any functions that I should implement or 
>> call in my reader class? Thanks a lot.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> xunlei
>>
>>
>>
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