Communication between plugins

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@chart3388 When we talked, one of the questions that came up was how plugins might communicate with each other.

ParaView exposes a method for this on the client (not server) side inside Qt/Core/pqApplicationCore.h… plugins can call the registerManager(const QString& function, QObject* manager); method to register anything that inherits QObject. Then other plugins can call the application-core’s QObject* manager(const QString& function); method to fetch it based on the string name.

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There was also a question about how to programmatically load plugins. A test in SMTK (smtk/extension/paraview/pluginsupport/testing/python/loadSMTKPluginInParaView.py.in) demonstrates how to do this in python. The corresponding C++ routines can be determined by simply tracing which C++ calls the python wrappings make.