Hello,
i would like to ask for a improvement over an existing feature. right now paraview when searching for a filter if this is not available it will show them in unavailable and if we go over it it will give a small message of why it is unavailable such as I found myself today, trying to use connectivity filter to a contour filter which gave an error saying ‘Input must be vtkDataSet’ what would be nice (and here is the request) would be that it will also give some clues on about your current data, for example for this case saying something like ‘input must be vtkDataSet current input is vtkMultiBlockDataSet to transform vtkMultiBlockDataSet into vtkDataSet please use merge blocks filter on input’ or something in that regards for the cases where this is applicable. and giving a more precise output from the type of input that we give.
regards
While I understand the need for this from a user POV, this is very very hard to implement this correctly.
I understand, it is a simple suggestion obviously. but could be great, specially that a lot of users are quite lost with the kind of data in paraview. right now it checks what kind of data is the input filter, one should have a extra message to that would depend in the necessary input kind and the input kind and in fucntion of this complete the message. it is simply an idea suggestion in any case 