[Paraview] basics of paraview client server programming

[Peter Debuchev]

Dear Utkarsh,
thank you for your offer to search the old ParaView Guide v3 client-server
programming chapter. May I ask whether your search has been successful?
Even a scan of the pages from the relevant chapter would be nice, if you
are authorized to share it.

I have read all your links, and they are great to get an idea about the
changes that are going on. However, I would need a well structured
book-chapter which builds the story from the basic requirements to a full,
simple application. The information in the links is so spread that
everything seems to depend on everything else, and nowhere is it clear what
are ideas for the future, what is under current development, and what has
been deprecated again.
I would really like to read again the chapter from ParaView Guide v3, which
I remember gave me perfect insight into Paraview years ago. Even if it is
rather out of date, it would give me a solid basis to better understand the
current developments.

Peter

2016-06-02 14:43 GMT+02:00 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>:

> Alas, there's nothing up-to-date. I've been meaning to write a blog
> series covering various aspect of ParaView internals, but it's hard to
> find some downtime to get that going. I'll try to see if I can find
> the old PDF for the ParaView Guide v3 and share the old chapter
> (although obsolete, but basic design may still be relevant). The
> ParaView developers Wiki
> (http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/Main_Page) has a few
> articles that we wrote with coming up with the design for some of the
> core components. The implementations generally differ slightly from
> the design and may have names/APIs changed since, but nonetheless may
> be helpful in understanding how things came about. Specifically,
>
> [1] http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/ServerManager_2.0
> [2] http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/ProcessModule_2.0
> [3] http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/index.php/Views_And_Representations
> [4]
> http://www.paraview.org/ParaView/images/2/24/ParaViewCollaborationChanges.pdf
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Ellon Paiva <ellonpaiva at gmail.com> wrote:
> > +1 for that. I'm very interested to know if there's such book or
> document.
> >
> > When I started developing a plug-in for ParaView I found this
> presentation
> > almost by accident. Maybe it can help you. Apparently it was used in a
> > conference/workshop (VIS08?) to describe briefly the proxy system, and
> > refers to the "Paraview Guide, Version 3, section 18.6, and chapter 19
> for
> > details (see slide 30). Unfortunately the version 3 of the Guide I
> couldn't
> > find.
> >
> > Ellon
> >
> >
> > On 06/02/2016 07:35 AM, Peter Debuchev wrote:
> >
> > Is any introduction available, how vtkSMServerManager, vtkSMSessions,
> > vtkProxies etc. are set up to interact with a pvserver or with a custom
> > server application?
> > I am not talking about short demos that show how to create and display a
> > sphere using pvpython. What I am looking for is a book chapter or similar
> > explaining the principles behind vtkSMSessions, vtkProcies etc.
> >
> > Does anybody remember, which of the VTK or ITK or Paraview books included
> > such chapters?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > 2016-05-29 19:09 GMT+02:00 Peter Debuchev <peterdebuchev at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Dear Paraview programmers,
> >> I am looking for some information about the basic principles of
> Paraviews
> >> client-server model, the setup of client proxies and the communication
> >> design.
> >>
> >> I think that I have seen a chapter with a short introduction on these
> >> topics some years ago. It was in one of the VTK books or in the Paraview
> >> User's Guide. Now I cannot find this chapter again. Has it been removed
> in
> >> the latest edition of these books? Or is it described in a different
> book
> >> which I don't remember?
> >>
> >> Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
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