Use Paraview color map editor as separate programm/as component by another program

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I would like to ask if it is possible/anybody has tried to use the color map editor of ParaView as a separate program or “call” it as a component from another program?

How much effort would be needed to create such a “component”? Are there any examples to use parts of ParaView as individual programs? Or would it be possible to configure Paraview in a way that just the color map editor is left usable?

The use case is an existing program, which is used to visualize special simulation results. Unfortunately, it is not possible to convert those results into a format readable by ParaView/write a special reader for ParaView. But it would be nice if the user could modify color maps or create new ones which are used by this visualization program.

Thank you for any hints/help

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Hi @jherb

Thats an interesting question, but I’m afraid this Qt component is deeply integrated with the proxy/property logic of ParaView to be able to take it out easily.

That being said, it sounds possible to create a very simple ParaView based application that only show the color map editor. See this for examples of ParaView based applications: https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/tree/master/Examples/CustomApplications?ref_type=heads

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