Method LoadSettings

Remoting/Application/vtkInitializationHelper.cxx:616–659

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void vtkInitializationHelper::LoadSettings()
{
  if (vtkInitializationHelper::LoadSettingsFilesDuringInitialization == false)
  {
    return;
  }

  vtkProcessModule* pm = vtkProcessModule::GetProcessModule();
  assert(pm != nullptr);
  int myRank = pm->GetPartitionId();

  vtkSMSettings* settings = vtkSMSettings::GetInstance();
  if (myRank > 0) // don't read files on satellites.
  {
    settings->DistributeSettings();
    return;
  }

  // Load user-level settings
  std::string userSettingsFilePath = vtkPVStandardPaths::GetUserSettingsFilePath();
  if (!settings->AddCollectionFromFile(userSettingsFilePath, vtkSMSettings::GetUserPriority()))
  {
    // Loading user settings failed, so we need to create an empty
    // collection with highest priority manually. Otherwise, if a
    // setting is changed, a lower-priority collection such as site
    // settings may receive the modified setting values.
    settings->AddCollectionFromString("{}", vtkSMSettings::GetUserPriority());
  }

  // Load site-level settings
  const std::vector<std::string> pathsToSearch = vtkPVStandardPaths::GetInstallDirectories();
  const std::string filename = vtkInitializationHelper::GetApplicationName() + "-SiteSettings.json";
  for (const std::string& path : pathsToSearch)
  {
    const std::string siteSettingsFile = std::string(path).append("/").append(filename);
    if (settings->AddCollectionFromFile(siteSettingsFile, 1.0))
    {
      break;
    }
  }
  settings->DistributeSettings();

  vtkInitializationHelper::SaveUserSettingsFileDuringFinalization = true;
}

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void vtkInitializationHelper::PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent)