[Paraview] custom view plugin - minimal example needed

[Mathieu Westphal]

Hi Kolja

I have a simple view plugin project ongoing that I should be able to scale
down for your needs.
I will try to find the time to do it before the end fo the week.

Best,

Mathieu Westphal

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Kolja Petersen <petersenkolja at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is it possible to write a plugin that derives from vtkPVView instead of
> vtkPVRenderView?
>
> I don't know how I can further shorten my question. The answer is quite
> important to decide whether we can continue our ParaView developments.
> Thank you
> Kolja
>
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> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 7:32 PM, Kolja Petersen <petersenkolja at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 This link says that the plugin tutorial is obsolete for the view part: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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