[Paraview] basics of paraview client server programming

Mon Jun 6 16:03:16 EDT 2016

Excellent, thank you!

2016-06-06 19:01 GMT+02:00 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>:

> Attached.
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Peter Debuchev <peterdebuchev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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 rather out of date, it would give me a solid basis to better understand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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