[Paraview] How to associate a vtkTextActor to a point in the pipeline

2011-08-31 Thread Marco Nawijn
Dear All, I have a short question. Is it possible to create (in Python) a vtkTextActor and associate this to a grid point in the Paraview pipeline? If so, can someone outline the steps that I need to take? I know how to obtain the points in the pipeline and how to work with the vtkTextActor

[Paraview] Cosmo Reader - 64bit IDs

2011-08-31 Thread joseph insley
Hi, I have some large data sets in the Cosmo format that I'd like to visualize with ParaView, but the format is slightly different from that expected by the built-in CosmoReader. Because the data sets I have use a very large number of particles, they use a 64bit int for the ID tag, rather

[Paraview] how to add custom filter to custom menu

2011-08-31 Thread FISSELL
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

Re: [Paraview] how to add custom filter to custom menu

2011-08-31 Thread Burlen Loring
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=Sciberamp;Quest Proxy

Re: [Paraview] how to add custom filter to custom menu

2011-08-31 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Kate, There's also an easy way to create a toolbar via xml (example below, add show_in_toolbar and iconattributes). ParaViewFilters Category name=Common menu_label=amp;Common preserve_order=1 show_in_toolbar=1 Proxy group=filters name=Calculator

Re: [Paraview] how to add custom filter to custom menu

2011-08-31 Thread burlen
Hi, Since it was so straight forward I tested it. Here is an example adding the menu with a filter. Burlen On 08/31/2011 12:32 PM, Burlen Loring wrote: Hi Kate, There's also an easy way to create a toolbar via xml (example below, add show_in_toolbar and iconattributes). ParaViewFilters

Re: [Paraview] how to add custom filter to custom menu

2011-08-31 Thread FISSELL
Hi Burlen, Thanks so much I tried your code and I do get my filter in my menu. Your code had changes from the Examples/SourceToolbar code that I would not have figured out. Unfortunately my filter does have 2 mandatory inputs, so I got a runtime error ERROR: In