[Paraview] getElementProperty with arguments

[Berk Geveci]

What is the actual use-case? Are you trying to get meta-data about something?

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Paul Edwards <paul.m.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my pqObjectPanel I would like to be able to call a function with
> parameters on my vtkAlgorithm and then get the return value.
>
> I can do this without parameters, e.g.
>
> In vtkAlgorithm class I have the function:
>       char* GetValue();
>
> In my xml file I have:
>       <StringVectorProperty
>                            name="GetValue"
>                            command="GetValue"
>                            information_only="1">
>           <SimpleStringInformationHelper/>
>       </StringVectorProperty>
>
> And, in pqObjectPanel I have:
>       QVariant v =
> pqSMAdaptor::getElementProperty(this->proxy()->GetProperty("GetValue"));
>
> So this all works but how could this be updated for a function that took a
> parameter.  I have tried the following:
>
> In vtkAlgorithm class I changed the function to take an argument:
>       char* GetValue(char* arg1);
>
> In my xml file I set the number of elements:
>       <StringVectorProperty
>                            name="GetValue"
>                            command="GetValue"
>                            number_of_elements="1"
>                            information_only="1">
>           <SimpleStringInformationHelper/>
>       </StringVectorProperty>
>
> I'm not sure the XML file is correct - is it still a
> <SimpleStringInformationHelper>?  And finally I do not know what to do in
> pqObjectPanel...
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
> Paul
>
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