[Paraview] custom view plugin - minimal example needed

[Kolja Petersen]

I have stripped down Plugin/MantaView until all compilation problems
disappear. What is left, is basically a plugin for a vtkOpenGLRenderer.
The code, consisting of only two minimal classes, is attached and can be
built using:
unzip snippet-viewplugin.zip && mkdir build && cd build && cmake && make
(tested with ParaView 5.4.1)

This brings me back to my initial question. I'd like to show a custom view,
made of a number of Qt widgets (buttons and text) to show important
statistics.
In SnippetView.xml, the view is declared as:
<SnippetViewProxy class="vtkPVSnippetView" ... base_proxygroup="views"
base_proxyname="RenderView" ...

How can I replace 'base_proxyname="RenderView"' by some generic view, to be
filled with widgets? "View" or "ViewBase" are not recognized as base
proxies.
Thank you
Kolja


On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Kolja Petersen <petersenkolja at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear plugin developers,
> I need to implement a custom view to present datasets in a detailed
> editable format.
>
> This link says that the plugin tutorial is obsolete for the view part:
> https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_
> a_custom_view_.2A_obsolete_.2A
>
> The Examples/Plugins/GUIView suggested in the link doesn't exist. The
> Plugins/MantaView is rather complex and doesn't compile due to other bugs
> as reported elsewhere, so that I can't get a clue how the MantaView plugin
> is supposed to work.
>
> Could some kind developer upload a minimal working view plugin example,
> which needs to display only a simple QButton or any other widget? This will
> help to allow users build their custom views for ParaView 5.x.y.
> Thank you
> Kolja
>
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