[Paraview] ANN: Upcoming changes to ParaView Server Manager

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Thanks Sven to bring that up,

I will look into that tomorrow.

Seb

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Sven Buijssen
<sven.buijssen at tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Hi Seb,
>
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_an_object_panel shows
> a trivial example of how to tweak a panel with some custom GUI elements. For
> convenience, I've put the necessary code together in the attached archive.
>
> With the Collaboration branch, this plugin's text "This is from a plugin" won't
> get displayed any more in the panel of the Cone source for release builds.
> A debug build of the code still compiles just fine against a Collaboration
> branch debug build, even loads into it, but when creating a cone source,
> ParaView crashes with
>
> ERROR: In
> /ParaViewCollaboration.git/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/vtkSMRemoteObject.cxx,
> line 124
> vtkSMSourceProxy (0x11a4730): GlobalID must NOT be changed once it has been
> assigned.
> Try to set 145 to replace the current 289 value.
>
> Any idea what might need to be changed in order to get this working?
> A different syntax for the ADD_PARAVIEW_OBJECT_PANEL in CMakeLists.txt maybe?
>
> Thanks for any hint.
>
> Sven
>
>
> Sebastien Jourdain wrote, On 03/28/11 21:29:
>> Folks,
>>
>> For those of you who haven't follow the topic in the
>> paraview-developers mailing list here is a quick summary on what's
>> going on in the coming weeks.
>> We've been working for a while now on restructuring the Server Manager
>> of ParaView to make it more efficient as well as allowing it to
>> support collaborative workflows.
>> The API has undergone major changes and may cause some minor rewrite
>> of your own code. Before we merge these changes to master, please try
>> out the Collaboration branch with your code and let us know if you
>> experience any issue.
>> Please see below for the details on how to checkout the Collaboration branch.
>>
>> Thanks for your support,
>>
>> Seb
>>
>> ============= From the ParaView-developer list ===============
>>
>> Following up the mail from Utkarsh on the changes to ParaView Server Manager :
>>
>> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview-developers/2011-February/000951.html
>>
>> We finally push our branch to the stage. That branch will only be
>> merged to master in the coming month.
>> But if you have developed a plugin or any code based on ParaView and
>> you want to test it against
>> that major update, please follow the coming instructions and don't
>> hesitate to send us your feed back.
>>
>> In order to fetch our ParaView branch from stage, you will need to
>> execute the following command line:
>>
>> $ git clone --recursive git://paraview.org/stage/ParaView.git -b Collaboration
>>
>> Then, as any regular ParaView source directory, you should be able to
>> configure and build it.
>> As some directory and kit renaming occurred, you may need to update
>> the name of the ParaView library that you are linking against. Now the
>> ParaViewCore package which used to be called "Servers" contains the
>> following kits:
>> vtkPVCommon, vtkPVClientServerCore, vtkPVServerImplementation,
>> vtkPVServerManager, vtkPVVTKExtensions.
>>
>> Please remember, these do not affect 3.10 or even 3.10.1. These will
>> make into the
>> official ParaView 4.0 release, nothing sooner.
>>
>> Seb
>>
>> PS: Additional informations on those changes are available here
>> http://paraview.org/ParaView3/images/2/24/ParaViewCollaborationChanges.pdf
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