Re: [MayaVi-users] mayavi module

[Prabhu R. <pr...@ae...>]

Håkan Jakobsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I read on the mayavi website that it is possible to write own modules  
> to mayavi. My research group is looking to write a simple graphical  
> tool used to apply boundary conditions etc to geometries defined  
> by .poly files. The data would be saved in an xml file, read by our  
> solvers. Is it possible to write such a module to mayavi?

Yes, I think it is possible to do so.  I would recommend doing this with 
mayavi2 (and posting questions on ent...@ma... in 
addition).  Your strategy would be to learn a little of traits and TraitsUI

  http://code.enthought.com/projects/traits/

Then understand how to create a simple module with mayavi2.  The mayavi2 
user guide should give you a reasonable start:

  http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi

Then you should have a good idea of what kind of UI you want to provide 
for your module and how you want people to interact with your module to 
provide the boundary condition information and then implement it.  At 
this point you'll also need to learn a little VTK to understand things a 
little better.

HTH.

cheers,
prabhu