Add custom filters to custom app

[majo_vlas]

I recently ask about automatically adding custom filters to a custom application based on the Clone1 example.
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/tree/master/Examples/CustomApplications/Clone1

I was referred to this article
https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/latest/cxx/PluginHowto.html

But I can’t find an example on how to do it in my case.

For example, in the Clone1 folder I have the file ParaViewFilters.xml, how do I add my custom filters matrix-filters.py and markers-filter.py to that file?

[mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

@majo_vlas

how do I add my custom filters matrix-filters.py and markers-filter.py to that file?

You do not. These files refers only to filters already present in ParaView

Just build a Plugin and load it in your application, the same way you do it in ParaView or with the static framework I provided a link to.

[majo_vlas]

I guess I have problems with this because I can’t find examples that fit my needs.
For example, in https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/latest/cxx/PluginHowto.html there is an example with ElevationFilters.

But I have filters in python, so I look at another example.
In the ParaView source code folder Examples/Plugins there is PythonAlgorithm/PythonAlgorithmExamples.py

Then, in /Desktop/pv/pv-build/install/lib/paraview-5.7/plugins/
I created a folder and add the filter: MarkersFilters/markers-filter.py.

Then, I build the Clone1 (https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/tree/master/Examples/CustomApplications) application again from

But the filter is not loaded.

Do I need to create something else? Like an XML file? Where?

Do I have to rebuild ParaView after adding the filters to the plugins folder?

Thanks!

[mwestphal (Mathieu Westphal (Kitware))]

you need to Load dynamically the plugin, exactly the same way as in ParaView.
(or to use the Static link I already explained earlier)

All the info is in the link you provided earlier. Please read it thoroughly.

[majo_vlas]

In the end I end up creating a plugins folder in /path/Clone1/build/bin/paraview_clone1.app/Contents/MacOS and pasting the filters markers-filter.py and matrix-filters.py there.