On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com> wrote: > Filters have different ways of specifying inputs: you can have > multiple input connections on an input port, and/or you can have > multiple input ports. > Your filter is a multi-input port filter which accepts a single > connection on each of the 2 ports. If user selects, multiple sources > in the pipeline browser, ParaView assumes multiple connections on an > input port, thus enabling only those filters that have the "Input" > property such that it accepts multiple connections (like the Append > filter, Group Datasets filter etc.). > > For multiple input ports, ParaView convention is that you simply > select the value for one input port; ParaView will popup a input > selection dialog to allow user to explicitly specify the sources for > the other input ports.
Very cool. I added a small not to that effect on the wiki: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Filters_with_Multiple_Input_Ports Thanks, David _______________________________________________ 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
