[Paraview] Plugin for TIFF Writer

[clinton at elemtech.com]

On Tuesday 19 February 2008 10:37:23 am Enkelejda Tafaj wrote:
> Hi,
>
> adding Plugins to Paraview works fine for new Filters and Readers, but I
> have problems when trying to add a Writer (vtkTIFFWriter.*).
>
> The SERVER_MANAGER_XML - TiffWriter.xml- "activates" the existing vtk
> class (vtkTIFFWriter). I also wrote the files pqTiffWriter.xml and
> pqTiffWriter.qrc for the GUI.
>
> The Plugin compiles, but when I load image data in Paraview and want to
> save it as .tif file, no plugin appears when calling "Save data". The
> TiffWriter.xml file is defined very similiar to the paraview png writer
> so I don't understand why this is not working.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Enkelejda


Your pqTiffWriter.xml has a syntax error in it.

<ParaViewWriters>
  <Writer name="TIFFWriter"
          extensions="tif"
          file_description="Tiff Writer"/>
</ParaViewWriter>   <--  needs to be ParaViewWriters

Did ParaView not give you a warning for that?

Clint