AHM2012-Slicer-Overview-and-Migration

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 8 to 10am This session is for all developers planning to migrate existing slicer3 modules to slicer4 or start a new project from scratch in slicer4.

Overview and Architecture

• Steve (10 minutes) Introduction
  • Capabilities
  • Release Schedule
  • Goals
  • Ongoing Slicer4 projects and collaborations (NAC, NCIGT, CTK, Supplements...)
• Jc (10 minutes)
  • Modularization Object Specialization
    • Qt Widgets <- CTK Widgets <- MRML Widgets <- Slicer Widgets
    • vtkObject <- MRMLLogic <- Module Logic
  • Displayable Managers
  • Views and Layouts

Module Creation and Migration

• Steve (5 minutes) Module Wizard
• Jim (10 minutes)
  • [Media:Slicer4 CLI.ppt|CLI Modules]
  • Creating a CLI from existing C++ code
  • Migrating CLI Modules to ITK version 4
• J2: Loadable Modules (20 minutes)
  • Structure of a Loadable Module
  • Specialization of Module Classes
  • Integration with Designer
• Steve: Scripted Modules and Python Console (20 minutes)
  • What is accessible via python
  • Using the console (See J2's excellent demo video)
  • Writing a Scripted Module
    • PythonQt interface
    • Logic with vtk/vtkITK/CLI Modules
    • Accessing MRML Data via numpy
  • Refining the code and UI with slicerrc
  • Limitations of python
• Demian: Whole Brain Tractography (10 minutes)
  • Python wizard example
  • Discussion of interactions among modules
  • How to build on the dMRI module

Testing Infrastructure

• Benjamin (20 minutes)
  • Writing and Running Module Tests
  • Creating GUI Tests
  • What your modules/widgets need to do in order to support automated UI testing

Documentation

• Jc (10 minutes)
  • How to write end user documentation for your module
  • Source code naming and documentation style
  • CMake documentaiton

Extensions

• Jc (20 minutes)
  • Writing an s4ext file
  • Testing your extension
  • How users will access your extension