You did change your proxy to be a "WriterProxy" or subclass instead of "SourceProxy" right?
Utkarsh On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Christian Werner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
