[Paraview] attach filebrowser to box in properties panel and does RequestData() block dialogs

[FISSELL at pitt.edu]

Hi Takuya,

Thanks a lot for your suggestion.  I looked at the readers.xml file and
found an example in vtkExodusIIReader.
I copied that to a test reader of mine and it worked like a charm.
But, I then put the same code in my custom *filter* and it did not
work, the text box and browser widget simply did not appear in the
properties panel.

Does anyone have sample code (hopefully just XML spec) for adding
a browser button to a filter properties panel, not a reader ?

thanks
Kate

> Hi kate,
>
> Perhaps you can try adding <FileListDomain name="files"/> to the
> string vector property that holds file name. Several examples are in
> readers.xml in the source distribution of PV.
>
> Takuya
>
> Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
> Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
> 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
>
> From: FISSELL at pitt.edu
> Subject: [Paraview] attach filebrowser to box in properties panel and does
> RequestData() block dialogs
> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:38:29 -0400
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to attach a filebrowser to a textbox or dropdown list in
>> the properties panel in a custom filter via the XML spec ?
>>
>> Since I didn't see the way to do that I added a pqFileDialog dialog()
>> call
>> in my filter RequestData() method.  It came up ok but did not respond to
>> any mouse/keyboard input.  I tried moving the dialog() call to my filter
>> constructor, just to see if it worked there, and it worked fine.
>> Is mouse/keyboard interaction blocked during execute of RequestData() ?
>> For the server/parent parameters to dialog() I used
>> pqApplicationCore::instance()->getServerManagerModel()->getItemAtIndex<pqServer*>(0);
>> pqCoreUtilities::mainWidget()
>>
>>
>> (I know its gross to try to put a dialog() in RequestData(), but we at
>> least
>> temporarily need a little junk file from the user, not worth writing a
>> reader
>> for, would prefer to add filebrowser to properties panel if I can do
>> that
>> easily).
>>
>> thanks
>> kate
>