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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Sean,<BR>
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I am a little confused. Are you saying that there exists a reader in ParaView that you want to use to load in a file series? And the issue is that because the reader already exists in ParaView in the “sources” group and you cannot move it to “internal_sources” or some other naming conflict?<BR>
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If this is the case, I don’t think there is anything special you have to do. Just make a new <FileSeriesReaderProxy> tag in the “sources” group. The Reader subproxy can be in any group; it does not mater if it also came from “sources”. The FileSeriesReaderProxy can also co-exist with the single file reader so long as they have unique names. You can also make your reader read files with the same file extension; ParaView will use the plugin reader instead of the one defined in ParaView.<BR>
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-Ken<BR>
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On 1/8/09 12:19 PM, "Sean Ziegeler" <<a href="sean.ziegeler@nrlssc.navy.mil">sean.ziegeler@nrlssc.navy.mil</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I'd like to write a plugin that makes the Meta format time-aware. I've<BR>
looked at: <a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series</a> .<BR>
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From that, I see that I can modify<BR>
VTK/Servers/ServerManager/Resources/reader.xml, but I'd prefer it to be<BR>
plugin that I can send to someone else with requiring a complete rebuild<BR>
of Paraview/VTK. It should be possible to write a .xml file that gets<BR>
loaded as a plugin and that wraps the Meta reader in a vtkFileSeriesReader.<BR>
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However, if I do it without modifying readers.xml, the original Meta<BR>
reader does not get moved to a different ProxyGroup. Does that mean my<BR>
new Meta Series reader won't ever be used? Is there some other way to<BR>
do it that doesn't require a rebuild of Paraview?<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Sean<BR>
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