I was trying to diagnose why ParaView was not loading some of my
plugins and it occurred to me that the dialog box for loading plugins,
while somewhat verbose, is not that easy to interpret:
ParaView.app/Contents/MacOS/../Plugins;ParaView.app/Contents/
MacOS/../../Plugins.
I was thinking it would be easier if it just read:
[Path To ParaView]/ParaView.app/Contents/Plugins;[Path To ParaView]/
Plugins;
So in pqPluginManager.cxx, down around line 471 I have the following:
#if defined (Q_OS_MAC)
//Look in the Application Package "ParaView.app/Contents/Plugins
QDir appDir (QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath());
appDir.cdUp();
pv_plugin_path += appDir.absolutePath() + QDir::separator() +
"Plugins;";
//Look for a folder called "Plugins" at the same level as ParaView.app
appDir.cdUp();
appDir.cdUp();
pv_plugin_path += appDir.absolutePath() + QDir::separator() +
"Plugins;";
//Look for a plugins at the same level as ParaView.app
pv_plugin_path += appDir.absolutePath() + QDir::separator() + ";";
#else
pv_plugin_path += QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath() +
QDir::separator()
+ "plugins";
#endif
Thoughts from anyone?
Also, I noticed that while plugins are built into the
$PARAVIEW_BINARY_DIR/bin they are not automatically loaded from there?
In the patch above, an additional line is there to add this directory
to the list of directories to check. At least on OS X, this makes it
easier to debug plugins? Or am I missing something completely? I know
about PV_PLUGIN_PATH but really consider that a hack. Thoughts?
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Mike Jackson [email protected]
BlueQuartz Software www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer Dayton, Ohio
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