ParaView Server Manager framework

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Recently I have been investigating ParaView’s infrastructure via its source code, and becoming familiar with the way ParaView builds its menu as well as other GUI components. For customization, I learnt how to add toolbar at Plugin_HowTo#Adding a toolbar, which involves ParaView Server Manager Framework.

ParaView runs in client-server mode and has various managers, it seems most part of ParaView revolves around Server Manager(SM), proxy, model(e.g. an item in source menu is a element in configuration XML file). Even with source code I have no idea what proxy represents through source code, is it a single unit in a session?

I think I need to understand this for high-level customization so I hope for more information about ServerManager framework. Thanks.

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It’s unclear what you plan to do, please clarify it.

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Sorry for that. I’m planning to reproduce what ParaView does with customized GUI components. After binding ParaView Reactions to my File->open QAction and reading files, I find nothing to be displayed in my render view.
Here is how I created my view(I copy this from an ParaView example):

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Each VTK objects on the server that needs to be controlled by the client have a corresponding Proxy client side.

I find nothing to be displayed in my render view.

Define “nothing”.

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I’m planning to reproduce what ParaView does with customized GUI components.

Interesting to see.

ParaView is not a customized GUI?

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It is, but not in a full extent.

One can instead use ParaView framework to create Custom ParaView applications.

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Thanks for reply, my render view remains unchanged after I select file from Open File dialog:

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but I am able to save the data then.
I guess I omitted something necessary. I’m referring to MultiServerClient example.

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You need to execute the pipeline and show you data, the same way as using ParaView.

(maybe you use using the Auto-Apply mode in ParaView, where this would be automatic)

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