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

[Takuya OSHIMA]

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