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| − | <br /> The purpose of this retreat is to review the progress made with the slicer 3 project and plan the work for the upcoming months. In particular, we are planning to have a release by the next AHM in January and we need to make sure we're covering the needed bases. | + | <big>'''Note:''' We are migrating this content to the slicer.org domain - <font color="orange">The newer page is [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer:Slicer3-June-5-2006-Retreat here]</font></big> |
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| − | = Logistics =
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| − | Start at 10am going to mid afternoon.
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| − | Location Kitware.
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| − | Atendees:
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| − | * Steve Pieper
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| − | * Nicole Aucoin
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| − | * Alex Yarmarkovich
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| − | * Wendy Plesniak
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| − | * Jim Miller
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| − | * Bill Lorensen
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| − | * Sebastien Barre (Kitware)
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| − | * Will Schroeder
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| − | * Mathieu Malaterre
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| − | * Andy Cedilnik
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| − | = Where are we now =
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| − | == Current state of the implementation ==
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| − | * Review of the [[Media:Slicer3-Core1-2006-05-23.ppt| slides]] used at the Core 1 retreat
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| − | === MRML ===
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| − | * Node Types
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| − | * Undo/Redo functionality
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| − | * Interactions with Logic and Widgets
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| − | === GUI ===
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| − | * KWWidget Classes
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| − | * SlicerGUI Classes
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| − | * VTK 3D Widgets (aka WWidgets)
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| − | ==== GUI Questions ====
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| − | * Inserting menu items before Exit in the File menu<br /><small><nowiki>=>win->GetFileMenu()->InsertCommand(win->GetFileMenuInsertPosition(), ...)</nowiki></small>
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| − | * Avoid Slice widget (option menu) resize but allow people to read full name of currently selected node. Maybe with a tooltip of the full name of the widget<br /><small><nowiki>=>Exactly. Each time you select something in that menu, intercept the event and reset the balloon help string of the option menu button with the full name of the data (vtkKWWidget::SetBalloonHelpString)</nowiki></small>
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| − | * Getting access to the RenderWindowInteractor from a KWRenderWidget (protected?)<br /><small><nowiki>=> renderwidget->GetRenderWindow()->GetInteractor()</nowiki></small>
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| − | * Can the 3D Widgets be made 'hot' so that they highlight on mouse-over events<br /><small><nowiki>=> Check with Will</nowiki></small>
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| − | * Good strategy for assessing the resolution of a machine's display, and setting Slicer3 layout parameters in a compatible way<br /><small><nowiki>=> vtkKWTkUtilities::GetScreenSize()</nowiki></small>
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| − | * Reformatting the main window to display various view options (lightbox, 3D-only, slice-only, 4-up, tabbed scene view, etc.)
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| − | * Typing Alt-F-X too fast can cause the UI to hang (Windows)<small><br /><nowiki>=> Type it slower ;) Slicer is great, why do you want to quit so fast ? Seriously, could not reproduce. My Slicer crashes and burn (leaks + crash) anyway, so I won't exit cleanly in any cases right now</nowiki></small><small><br />sp> This happens before any crashes :) But I can show you the behavior when we are together...</small>
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| − | * KWWidgets method to "eventually render" like an 'after idle render' in tcl/tk
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| − | ==== Slicer widgets and KWWidgets we need to design and build ====
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| − | * Window / Level / Threshold Editor (close to being done)
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| − | * Better Slice Controller widget; one that manages FG/BG layers but also allows other layers to be defined, with visibility and compositing attributes
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| − | * MRML Scene browser (tree widget)
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| − | * MRML properties browser/editor
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| − | * 3D View navigation widget and Slice Window zoom widget (toggle on mouseover Slice Windows)
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| − | * A filebrowser without "motif" look -- which uses the registry to figure out favorite directories, maybe which contains previews of files
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| − | * Workflow wizard?
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| − | * Ibrowser (but maybe this is a scriptable widget)
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| − | * Color palette browser/editor widget
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| − | ==== Other GUI Issues ====
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| − | * Progress on tracing
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| − | * Cross platform look and feel (font differences)
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| − | ** (native mac port worth the effort?) See [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/KWWidgets/FAQ#Mac_OS_X_with_default_Tcl.2FTk_Aqua Cross-Plaform Issues: Mac OS X with default Tcl/Tk Aqua]
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| − | ** Tile extension likely to be available?
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| − | === Execution Model ===
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| − | * Example applications for Core 1 to use as template
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| − | * Build/Pack Environment
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| − | * Autodetection by Slicer
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| − | * Building the GUIs in KWWidgets
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| − | == Report on feedback from Cores 1 and 3 ==
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| − | = Lessons learned =
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| − | == Implementation Bottlenecks ==
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| − | * Efficient coding for fleshing out the GUI (keyboard shortcuts, widget geometry management, clean cross-platform look&feel).
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| − | ** How to make all this code clean and maintainable
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| − | ** How to be sure there are enough shoulders on the oars to get the work done
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| − | * Building and Launchers
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| − | ** Path and LD_LIBRARY_PATH management for resources and dependent shared libraries (for Base and for Modules)
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| − | ** Template CMake framework for Module writers
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| − | ** More efficient builds?
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| − | * Modules
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| − | ** Example ITK code using the Execution Module framework
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| − | ** Bundling Modules for distribution
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| − | * "Check for Updates" feature
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| − | ** Use hits on the update website to track usage patterns
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| − | == Group Coordination ==
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| − | * Standing agenda item to discuss Slicer3 projects during the engineering tcons
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| − | * User-feedback sessions on GUI and Functionality
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| − | ** Randy Gollub
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| − | ** BWH PNL Users
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| − | ** Dartmouth Users
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| − | ** Others
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| − | = What are the priorities =
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| − | * Core 1 priorities
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| − | ** They like the execution model
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| − | * Core 3 priorities
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| − | * How can we focus time at the Project Week to move things ahead?
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| − | ** Can we give Core 1 examples of using the Execution Model? What help do they need?
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| − | == Best of Breed ==
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| − | This is Ron's list of features where we are "best of breed" or close in Slicer 2.x.
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| − | It is important that we don't loose ground when moving to Slicer3.
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| − | * '''DTI'''<nowiki>: We have a clear advantage compared to almost everybody. </nowiki>
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| − | * '''Interactive Editor'''<nowiki>: must-have basic component </nowiki>
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| − | * '''IGT'''<nowiki>: Best integrated package: tracker, registration, segmentation and visualization </nowiki>
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| − | * '''fMRI'''<nowiki>: one-stop shopping for combination of analysis and visualization/multi-modality </nowiki>
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| − | * '''Morphometric Analysis'''<nowiki>: EM is close to the quality achieved by Freesurfer on data for which it was calibrated, but is easier to calibrate and can handle pathology (e.g. WML) </nowiki>
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| − | One of the biggest UI challenges today: many of the interface modules were designed by engineers and not sufficiently organized for the needs of end-users.
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| − | Another big challenge is that researchers prefer not to learn a "big environment" when they feel they can get their papers published with a small set of tools. Researchers also typically do not write their code for maintainability (or even when they do, they don't ''actually'' maintain it).
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| − | == Minutes ==
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| − | * Execution Model discussion
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| − | ** Decision to flesh out examples of the command line modules in preparation for project week
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| − | ** Decision to work on automatic generation of GUI interface during project week
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| − | * Move to ITK 2.8 Monday
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| − | * Alex and Steve to rework the GAD module for Bill and Jim to use as template for CLModule
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| − | * The next budget year GE and Kitware will allocate resources for Slicer3 development to meet development goals for January NA-MIC AHM.
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