[Paraview] custom view plugin - minimal example needed

[Mathieu Westphal]

Hello

Here is a minimal example for creating a new type of view within a plugin.
You actually cannot inherit directly from vtkPVView, you must inherit for a
base view, which can be :
 - vtkPVRenderView
 - vtkPVContextView
 - vtkPythonView
 - vtkSpreadSheetView
(
https://www.paraview.org/ParaView/Doc/Nightly/www/cxx-doc/classvtkPVView.html
)

This choice is also visible in the associated xml files where you precise
which kind of proxy you want to create.

In the attached example, I demonstrated how to add a clone of the Render
View, called Render View 2.

Hope it helps,

Best,


Mathieu Westphal

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 7:08 PM, Kolja Petersen <petersenkolja at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you, Mathieu,
> any update on this?
> All my research seems to point to a few hardcoded views that are
> accessible. I simply can't find a solution to implement a new view and open
> it from a plugin.
> Thanks
> Kolja
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:55 AM, Mathieu Westphal <
> mathieu.westphal at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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