[Paraview] Customising ParaView GUI filter

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

The widget like that on the Contour Panel cannot be auto-generated
using the XML, unfortunately. We use a custom Qt panel for the contour
filter. Look at Qt/Components/pqContourPanel

Utkarsh

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Adriano Gagliardi <agagliardi at ara.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I've been testing the flexibility within ParaView for creating GUI
> interfaces to filters, without having to custom develop them using Qt
> designer. One of the items I'm failing to recreate is the table of Offset
> Values that you get, for example, with the Contour and Slice filters. All
> that appears is a slide widget like what you get with a Threshold filter.
> The rest of the GUI is ok and the filter works as it should. Has anyone
> tried this before and know where I'm going wrong? The code I am using is
> taken from 'Servers/ServerManager/Resources/filters.xml':
>
>     <DoubleVectorProperty
>        name="ContourValues"
>        command="SetValue"
>        repeat_command="1"
>        set_number_command="SetNumberOfContours"
>        number_of_elements_per_command="1"
>        use_index="1"
>        animateable="1"
>        label="Slice Offset Values">
>          <BoundsDomain name="bounds" mode="magnitude">
>            <RequiredProperties>
>              <Property name="Input" function="Input"/>
>            </RequiredProperties>
>          </BoundsDomain>
>          <Documentation>
>            The values in this property specify a list of current offset
> values. This can be used to create multiple slices with different centers.
> Each entry represents a new slice with its center shifted by the offset
> value.
>          </Documentation>
>     </DoubleVectorProperty>
>     <Hints>
>       <Visibility replace_input="2" />
>     </Hints>
>   <!-- End Cut -->
>   </SourceProxy>
>
>
> Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing?
>
> Cheers,
> Adriano
>
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>
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> Computational Aerodynamics
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