Hi Kate,
There's also an easy way to create a toolbar via xml (example below, add
"show_in_toolbar" and "icon"attributes).
<ParaViewFilters>
<Category name="Common" menu_label="&Common" preserve_order="1"
show_in_toolbar="1">
<Proxy group="filters" name="Calculator"
icon=":/pqWidgets/Icons/pqCalculator24.png"/>
</Category>
</ParaViewFilters>
But you are asking about menus...
On the wiki there is some info about adding menus
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_a_Menu it's almost the same
as adding a toolbar.There is an example of a toolbar that creates
sources, Examples/Plugins/SourceToolbar to work from. That shows how to
create a source but you need a filter.
The difference between creating sources and filters is that for filters
you have to specify the filters input (see pqObjectBuilder::createFilter).
here is a snippet that would locate the selected sources. I think you
could use this to get the source for your filter. Then it will be an
easy change to the SourceToolbar example.
pqApplicationCore* core = pqApplicationCore::instance();
pqServerManagerSelection sels =
*core->getSelectionModel()->selectedItems();
pqPipelineSource* source = 0;
pqServerManagerModelItem* item = 0;
if(sels.empty())
{
return NULL;
}
pqServerManagerSelection::ConstIterator iter = sels.begin();
item = *iter;
source = dynamic_cast<pqPipelineSource*>(item);
Sorry to be so imprecise, and note I have't tried this. Hope it helps
Burlen
On 08/31/2011 11:14 AM, fiss...@pitt.edu wrote:
Hi Burlen,
Thanks for getting back to me. Yes, I am aware of the submenu option.
That's plan B if I can't use a separate menu.
It was so easy to create the menu, I would be sort of suprised if
it wasn't equally easy to populate it...
thanks
Kate
Hi,
Did you know that you could create a category in the filters menu by way
of xml? That puts your filters in their own submenu making them easy to
find. In your client xml you have something like:
<ParaViewFilters>
<Category name="SciberQuestSciVis" menu_label="Sciber&Quest">
<Proxy group="filters" name="vtkSQDistributedStreamTracer"/>
</Category>
</ParaViewFilters>
Just checking.
Burlen
On 08/31/2011 08:28 AM, fiss...@pitt.edu wrote:
Hi,
I made a custom filter and added a new dropdown menu to the main
Paraview menubar, as per wiki tutorials.
My filter works in the filters menu, and I can call the OK dialog from
my
new menu.
I would like to add my filter to my new menu and have Paraview
understand
it as,
and treat it just like, filters in the filter menu.
I saw this posting very relevant to my question:
http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/paraview/2010-March/016211.html
but I'd like a little more help.
What program do I put that code snippet in ? Do I make a special
client side plugin just to get my filter in my toolbar ?
Is there a way to do this just via XML specification ?
Note I am not developing a standalone application, I am just adding
plugins
to ParaView.
If I put my filter in my custom menu, not the ParaView filters menu,
will ParaView know my plugin is a filter, eg should be added to pipeline
when
invoked, only be added if datatypes match, etc etc ?
Is it a bad design to create an additional menu of filters rather than
making a sub-section in the existing filters menu ? I just think the
current set of filters is so large it would be easier for our users to
make
a separate menu.
thanks
kate
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