External GUI Resources

There is a CMake macro from ParaView 2 PARAVIEW_INCLUDE_GUI_RESOURCES. There is now support for using that macro in ParaView 3. For a background on this macro, see Extending ParaView

• Create a MyFancyParaViewReader.xml

<ParaViewReaders>
  <Reader name="MyFancyReader"
          extensions="fancy"
          file_description="MyFancy">
  </Reader>
</ParaViewReaders>

• Create a MyFancyParaViewWriter.xml

<ParaViewWriters>
  <Writer name="MyFancyWriter"
          extensions="fancy"
          file_description="MyFancy">
  </Writer>
</ParaViewWriters>

• Then add to MYFANCYParaViewImport.cmake

...
PARAVIEW_INCLUDE_GUI_RESOURCES("${MYFANCY_SOURCE_DIR}/MyFancyParaViewReader.xml" "${MYFANCY_SOURCE_DIR}/MyFancyParaViewWriter.xml")
...

The reader and writer now shows up in the file dialog with a .MyFancy extension.