For better, or for worse, that's an assumption we made in ParaView from the get go and hence it's not possible to support unnamed arrays without extensive re-factoring.
Utkarsh On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Cory Quammen <cquam...@cs.unc.edu> wrote: > Ah, never mind. I forgot to set a name for the array. > > If I add > > bestDimensionsArray->SetName( ... ); > > the field data array shows up as expected. > > It seems like you should still be able to see the array values if the > array doesn't have a name, though. > > Cory > > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Cory Quammen <cquam...@cs.unc.edu> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a custom VTK filter that I am using to create a ParaView >> filter. I'd like to store some information about the output from the >> filter in the output's field data. My filter sets the field data for >> this output as follows: >> >> vtkPolyData *output1 = vtkPolyData::SafeDownCast( >> outputVector->GetInformationObject(1)->Get( >> vtkDataObject::DATA_OBJECT())); >> >> // do some stuff >> >> vtkStdString xColumnString( ... ); >> vtkStdString yColumnString( ... ); >> vtkStdString zColumnString( ... ); >> >> vtkSmartPointer< vtkStringArray > bestDimensionsArray = >> vtkSmartPointer< vtkStringArray >::New(); >> bestDimensionsArray->SetNumberOfValues( 3 ); >> bestDimensionsArray->SetValue( 0, xColumnString ); >> bestDimensionsArray->SetValue( 1, yColumnString ); >> bestDimensionsArray->SetValue( 2, zColumnString ); >> >> vtkSmartPointer< vtkFieldData > fieldData = >> vtkSmartPointer< vtkFieldData >::New(); >> fieldData->AddArray( bestDimensionsArray ); >> >> output1->SetFieldData( fieldData ); >> >> I was expecting to be able to see the field data in a spreadsheet view >> of the data. However, all I see is a single column with three empty >> cells. >> >> Thinking it might be a problem specific to vtkStringArray, I tried to >> set the field data to have a single vtkDoubleArray. However, I still >> get empty cells. >> >> Am I doing something wrong? I looked at the bug tracker but didn't >> find any open issues with regards to displaying field data in the >> spreadsheet view. >> >> Thanks! >> Cory >> >> -- >> Cory Quammen >> Research Associate >> Department of Computer Science >> The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > > > > -- > Cory Quammen > Research Associate > Department of Computer Science > The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > _______________________________________________ > 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
