Dan, Apart from the quite large list of readers ParaView ships with (see http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/List_of_readers) it is indeed possible to extend ParaView with custom readers, by using a reader plugin or extending the ParaView source. You will need to compile ParaView from source for that, though. http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Writing_ParaView_Readers will provide helpful information if you want to follow that path. The ParaView source tree contains 4 reader plugins in subdirectory "Plugins" which may serve as a template, too.
Probably easiest would be to tweak the ParaView sources directly and then compile ParaView from those sources for the operating systems used in your workgroup. You will have to edit the sources files in VTK/IO/Legacy. I do not recommend this procedure, though, as it will require quite some time and you would end up generating non-standard Legacy VTK files. Files ParaView and other VTK based programs and scripts will not be able to read by default. I'd go for the XML VTK ASCII formats instead, as Mike suggested. You can put XML comments anywhere, except inside a <DataArray>...</DataArray> pair. That should be sufficient. Hope that helps Karl _______________________________________________ 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
