# How to get access to current pqRenderView?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-access-to-current-pqrenderview/14166
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 15, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-access-to-current-pqrenderview/14166 "2024-03-15T11:00:43Z")
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### Author: ![joint](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@joint](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/joint)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-access-to-current-pqrenderview/14166/1 "2024-03-15T11:00:43Z")

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Hello dear paraview developers!

This is crucial for me achieving success, to access this class from my custom widget

Could you please explain me how to get access to existing instance of this class from any place of paraview program?

Thanks

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-access-to-current-pqrenderview/14166/2 "2024-03-15T11:03:26Z")

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`pqActiveObjects::activeView`

[https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/latest/cxx/classpqActiveObjects.html#a643a031a63c8cce671b203a8d1a3c580](https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/latest/cxx/classpqActiveObjects.html#a643a031a63c8cce671b203a8d1a3c580)