[Paraview] Pipeline not respecting the arrow of time after changing the inputs of a filter

[Jonathan Borduas]

Hi Utkarsh,

Thank you for your answer. As a user, especially with a complex tree, I found this unpractical. I have the reflex when searching for a filter to scroll down if the filters is "afterward". 

I do prefer the GitTree representation of ParaViewWeb. My opinion is that a GitTree could be the optimal representation of the pipeline. 

The GitKraken GitTree could be a good inspiration for a redesigned pipeline browser 😊. 

Best regards

Jonathan Borduas

-----Original Message-----
From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 2:25 PM
To: Jonathan Borduas <jonathan.borduas at caboma.com>
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Pipeline not respecting the arrow of time after changing the inputs of a filter

Jonathan,

The arrow is not intended to have a "top/down" direction, just a "back-to-root" direction. It can be interpreted as "ProgrammableFilter1" can be found somewhere on the main trunk.

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Jonathan Borduas <jonathan.borduas at caboma.com> wrote:
>
> Dear ParaViewers,
>
>
> I came across some weird behaviour in ParaView: We have a custom 
> BooleanOperation filter that have two outputs (custom ParaView build).
> If both outputs are the inputs of an Append Geometry and we update the 
> inputs of the BooleanOperation Filter, the Append Geometry will be 
> moved before the BooleanOperation Filter.
>
>
> I always though that if there was any dependencies in a pipeline, the 
> representation would respect the "arrow of time" that goes from top to 
> bottom.
> Please look at the picture here attached (same behaviour with a 
> ProgrammableFilter instead of a Append Geometry).
>
>
> Is my comprehension at fault here or is it a bug ?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Jonathan Borduas
>
>
>
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