Hi!

Thanks for the quick reply. I made it a writer and I am now able to access the plugin in Python. That's great, but somehow it doesn't execute. I can now set the FileName (which I forgot to mention in the xml), but I can't get it executed. The plugin is derived from vtkImageAlgorithm, but the RequestData method does not seem to be called. How do I trigger it?

Best regards,
Christian


Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
Christian,

Any reason why you are not making it a writer? To me it doesn't seem
anything different than that except looks like you are not explicitly
specifying the filename (is it hard coded?).

Utkarsh


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Christian Werner
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi!

I just wrote a nice mapper which writes some data to the disk, taking a
volume as input. I thought I could access it from the "Filters" menu, but
this wasn't possible. In future, this mapper should be called from the
python shell, but there, it isn't known either:

help(MeasureObjects)
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<console>", line 1, in <module>

NameError: name 'MeasureObjects' is not defined


The plugin-manager however says, that he loaded my plugin ("...is definetely
a paraview plugin..."). It shows up as "loaded" when verifying this.

The plugin is not intended as a writer or something like that, it just looks
at the input and writes something to the disk which Paraview couldn't use
for anything anyway. Here is my xml content:

<ServerManagerConfiguration>
 <!-- This is the server manager configuration XML. It defines the interface
to
     our new filter. As a rule of thumb, try to locate the configuration for
     a filter already in ParaView (in Servers/ServerManager/Resources/*.xml)
     that matches your filter and then model your xml on it -->
 <ProxyGroup name="mappers">
 <SourceProxy name="MeasureObjects" class="vtkMeasureObjects"
label="MeasureObjects">
   <Documentation
      long_help="Measures objects (connected components) in a volume."
      short_help="Classical measuring.">
  This is classical object measuring filter.
   </Documentation>
   <InputProperty
      name="Input"
      command="SetInputConnection">
         <ProxyGroupDomain name="groups">
           <Group name="sources"/>
           <Group name="filters"/>
         </ProxyGroupDomain>
         <DataTypeDomain name="input_type">
           <DataType value="vtkImageData"/>
         </DataTypeDomain>
    </InputProperty>
 <!-- End MeasureObjects -->
 </SourceProxy>
</ProxyGroup>
</ServerManagerConfiguration>


If I define the plugin as a filter then Paraview complains about not having
an output port.

Any suggestions?


Best regards,
Christian
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