Is it possible to write a plugin that derives from vtkPVView instead of
vtkPVRenderView?

I don't know how I can further shorten my question. The answer is quite
important to decide whether we can continue our ParaView developments.
Thank you
Kolja

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 7:32 PM, Kolja Petersen <petersenko...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have stripped down Plugin/MantaView until all compilation problems
> disappear. What is left, is basically a plugin for a vtkOpenGLRenderer.
> The code, consisting of only two minimal classes, is attached and can be
> built using:
> unzip snippet-viewplugin.zip && mkdir build && cd build && cmake && make
> (tested with ParaView 5.4.1)
>
> This brings me back to my initial question. I'd like to show a custom
> view, made of a number of Qt widgets (buttons and text) to show important
> statistics.
> In SnippetView.xml, the view is declared as:
> <SnippetViewProxy class="vtkPVSnippetView" ... base_proxygroup="views"
> base_proxyname="RenderView" ...
>
> How can I replace 'base_proxyname="RenderView"' by some generic view, to
> be filled with widgets? "View" or "ViewBase" are not recognized as base
> proxies.
> Thank you
> Kolja
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Kolja Petersen <petersenko...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear plugin developers,
>> I need to implement a custom view to present datasets in a detailed
>> editable format.
>>
>> This link says that the plugin tutorial is obsolete for the view part:
>> https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Plugin_HowTo#Adding_a
>> _custom_view_.2A_obsolete_.2A
>>
>> The Examples/Plugins/GUIView suggested in the link doesn't exist. The
>> Plugins/MantaView is rather complex and doesn't compile due to other bugs
>> as reported elsewhere, so that I can't get a clue how the MantaView plugin
>> is supposed to work.
>>
>> Could some kind developer upload a minimal working view plugin example,
>> which needs to display only a simple QButton or any other widget? This will
>> help to allow users build their custom views for ParaView 5.x.y.
>> Thank you
>> Kolja
>>
>
>
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