[Paraview] custom view plugin - minimal example needed

Sat Jan 27 07:17:48 EST 2018

Thank you Mathieu, your answer helped me decide whether to continue our
developments based on Paraview.
Kolja

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On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Mathieu Westphal <
mathieu.westphal at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Kolja
>
> Inheriting directly from vtkPVView is not possible as there is specific
> code dedicated to managing each type of base view. Even if it was possible,
> it would not allow you to add QtWidget anywhere in the view.
> This is not possible due to design.
> However, there are possibilities to add Qt widgets in the properties
> panel, in the view tool items and in any dedicated QDockWidget or QToolbar
> you may want to add in your plugin.
>
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> Mathieu Westphal
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> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 7:31 AM, Kolja Petersen <petersenkolja at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Mathieu,
>> I may be missing the point of your suggested code. I asked whether
>> plugins can provide views beyond the existing RenderViews, on 15 January I
>> sent a code snippet to the list to show my successful attempts that
>> implement a new RenderView and ask how to replace it with a generic view
>> containing other Qt widgets, and now you reproduced another version of the
>> functionality from my snippet.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Mathieu Westphal <
>> mathieu.westphal at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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/c
>>> lassvtkPVView.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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