Re: [Paraview] Trouble making simple VTK filter plugin
Any vtk object that needs to be treated as a filter or source has to be a vtkAlgorithm subclass. Also whenever you use SourceProxy / tag, it assumes that the vtk-class referred to by the class attribute is a vtkAlgorithm subclass. Utkarsh On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Jérôme jerome.ve...@gmail.com wrote: If someone confirms that paraview proxy have to represent a vtkAlgorithm or one of its subclass, that will mean that you cannot use vtkIterativeClosestPointTransform directly as in the paraview pipeline. And yes, you got it, a custom VTK class would be needed to embed the pipeline connection and the transformation computation. Jerome 2009/10/25 David Doria daviddo...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Jérôme jerome.ve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I took a look at your xml, and I didn't find any problems... So I verify in the VTK doc if you didn't misused the vtkIterativeClosestPointTransform, that I never had to work with. Especially, I checked the input data types (that was one of my major crashes' cause!) and I found that this filter is not a vtkAlgorithm (in the OO sense). And I think, but ParaView developers have to confirm this, that the ParaView proxy -that's what you described in your XML- concept is linked to vtkAlgorithm. If I am right, you cannot use the Enabling VTK filters in ParaView wiki-way. In your case, you certainly will have to write a subclass of vtkAlgorithm that outputs a matrix of transformation. Sorry for not being of more helps... Jerome Ah, that makes a lot of sense. I need to use a vtkTransformPolyDataFilter and set the input of this filter to the output of the vtkIterativeClosestPointTransform. Is this something that can be chained together in paraview? Or do I need to make a VTK filter that does all of this in one step and interface to the new filter with Paraview? 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 ___ 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
Re: [Paraview] Trouble making simple VTK filter plugin
If someone confirms that paraview proxy have to represent a vtkAlgorithm or one of its subclass, that will mean that you cannot use vtkIterativeClosestPointTransform directly as in the paraview pipeline. And yes, you got it, a custom VTK class would be needed to embed the pipeline connection and the transformation computation. Jerome 2009/10/25 David Doria daviddo...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Jérôme jerome.ve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I took a look at your xml, and I didn't find any problems... So I verify in the VTK doc if you didn't misused the vtkIterativeClosestPointTransform, that I never had to work with. Especially, I checked the input data types (that was one of my major crashes' cause!) and I found that this filter is not a vtkAlgorithm (in the OO sense). And I think, but ParaView developers have to confirm this, that the ParaView proxy -that's what you described in your XML- concept is linked to vtkAlgorithm. If I am right, you cannot use the Enabling VTK filters in ParaView wiki-way. In your case, you certainly will have to write a subclass of vtkAlgorithm that outputs a matrix of transformation. Sorry for not being of more helps... Jerome Ah, that makes a lot of sense. I need to use a vtkTransformPolyDataFilter and set the input of this filter to the output of the vtkIterativeClosestPointTransform. Is this something that can be chained together in paraview? Or do I need to make a VTK filter that does all of this in one step and interface to the new filter with Paraview? 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 ___ 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
Re: [Paraview] Trouble making simple VTK filter plugin
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Jérôme jerome.ve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, I have to expose a lot of native VTK filters that are not in ParaView. I never had to use a CMakeLists and a _GUI XML. In my mind, your input properties should be totally described in your ICP. xml file. For example on how to write proxy property elements, you should take a look at Paraview3/Servers/ServerManagers/Resources/filtering.xml. It was sufficient for me for many VTK filters, before I bought for the Paraview book. steps: - write your xml description of the wanted VTK filter - run ParaView - Tools - Manage Plugin/Extension - Load New - choose Files of type - *.xml - pick your file - OK Then your filter should appear in the filters list. Hope that helps Jerome (Attached is an example of how I expose vtkImageMathematic to Paraview.) Jerome, Thanks for the example. It is really nice not having to write the GUI manually, in most cases this automatic window that pops up should be sufficient. Is there any advantage of compiling into a library before loading into paraview? I tried to modify your file into my ICP filter. However, when I try to load my modified version, Paraview simply crashes as soon as I select the ICP filter from the filters menu. The only changes I made were to change the input types from vtkImageData to vtkDataSet and remove the rest of the properties, leaving only Source and Target. I tried port_index of the second input as 0 and 1 (what does this actually do?) with no change. Would you mind taking a look at the attached file? Thanks, David ServerManagerConfiguration ProxyGroup name=filters !-- == -- SourceProxy name=ICP class=vtkIterativeClosestPointTransform label=ICP Documentation long_help=Perform registration using iterative closest points. short_help=vtkIterativeClosestPointTransform filter. /Documentation InputProperty name=Source command=SetSource port_index=0 ProxyGroupDomain name=groups Group name=sources/ Group name=filters/ /ProxyGroupDomain DataTypeDomain name=input_type DataType value=vtkDataSet/ /DataTypeDomain Documentation Set the source data set. This data set will be moved towards the target data set. /Documentation /InputProperty InputProperty name=Target command=SetTarget port_index=0 ProxyGroupDomain name=groups Group name=sources/ Group name=filters/ /ProxyGroupDomain DataTypeDomain name=input_type DataType value=vtkDataSet/ /DataTypeDomain Documentation Set the target data set. This data set will remain unchanged. /Documentation /InputProperty /SourceProxy !-- End ICP -- /ProxyGroup !-- End Filters Group -- /ServerManagerConfiguration ___ 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
