[Paraview] HOWto create / extend sources?

[B.W.H. van Beest]

Utkarsh,


Thanks for the pointers. I'll follow-up according your suggestions.

I'm only recently doing stuff with ParaView (i.e. plugin-development).
Please accept my compliments for the way you answer questions in this
forum. The few answers you gave me + link to appropriate documentation
have been very iseful!

Regards,
Bertwim


On 09/29/2014 02:46 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>> a) How to create a new source ("MyNewSource")
> You define the 'proxy' under the "sources" group, rather than filters.
> It will automatically show up in the Menu. Look at sources.xml under
> [1] to see other source proxy definitions.
>
>> b) How can I extend an existing source (box, sphere, etc.) with new
>> properties and methods ("MyBox, "MySphere").
> Similar to the filters, you basically need to write a new VTK
> algorithm with these new methods. You can subclass the existing VTK
> source. Looking at sources.xml, you can find out which proxy using
> which VTK algorithm, e.g. "SphereSource" (labelled as "Sphere") uses
> "vtkSphereSource". After adding the methods on the VTK algorithm, next
> part is exposing those methods as properties using the XML.
>
> [1] https://github.com/Kitware/ParaView/tree/master/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/SMApplication/Resources
>
>> Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Bertwim
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