Hi Jerome, You can try to compile your xml into a plugin, which will also solve your the Version problem
Check "Enabling a filter in VTK" section on the wiki: http://paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo Yumin On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Jérôme <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yumin, > > Thanks a lot for your interest !! However... > >> >> I assume once you load your xml plugin from the plugin_loader, and >> check the "Auto Load" checkbox, the next time you start paraview, your >> xml plugin is loaded automatically, no? > > > That's my problem: it is not loaded even in this case... Attached is a > minimal xml that exposes vtkImageMathematics to paraview filter list. I > cannot auto-load it. > >> >> Now regarding the warning message, I believe it is due to the new >> addition to ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN macro in ParaViewPlugins.cmake (see >> below), and the version shown in the plugin_loader_GUI refers to >> plugin "Version" you set when calling ADD_PARAVIEW_PLUGIN in >> CMakeLists.txt > > Yes, my CMakeLists contains the version specification for the cxx plugins. > But thank you for the update about REQUIRED_PLUGINS, I was hoping that it > will solve my problem. So I set the PVCustomizer (cxx plugin, version "1.0" > in the CMakeLists) requiring the XML "ParaviewVTK". But I cannot load > "ParaviewVTK", so making the former depending on the latter is quite > awkward... Finally, you made me progressing and I have a more precise > question : > - How to set the version of a plugin that is only an XML description of > VTK filters? -ie I don't have a CMakeLists for this...- > > Thanks again Yumin! > > Jerome > >> >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Jérôme <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > ParaView-CVS brought a good surprise for me a few days ago. The plugin >> > loader has been rewrote and is now offering an auto-load option that is >> > very >> > useful. >> > However, I have an XML description of a lot of VTK native filters that >> > cannot be opened automatically. I have to "Load new" each time. Then, no >> > problem, the filters are exposed in the menu. But the plugin loader >> > gives a >> > warning message (see screenshot attached) and no "Version" (effectively, >> > the >> > XML doesn't have a "version=" element)... >> > >> > Second, I have an AutoStartPlugin that shows exactly the same problem >> > (PVCustomizer). The reason, I think, is that this plugin depends on VTK >> > filters (SplineFilter) that is described in the previous XML... >> > >> > Can someone tell me how to make the XML plugin 'autoloadeable' ? I >> > wonder if >> > it will solve the second problem... >> > >> > Thanks a lot! >> > >> > Jerome >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Powered by www.kitware.com >> > >> > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> > >> > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >> > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >> > >> > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Yumin Yuan >> R&D Engineer >> Kitware Inc. >> www.kitware.com >> Phone : (518) 881-4936 >> email : [email protected] >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yumin Yuan R&D Engineer Kitware Inc. www.kitware.com Phone : (518) 881-4936 email : [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
