Slicer3 Q&A 2008-11-18

Logistics

3:30-5pm at the 2nd floor demo room at 1249 Boylston.

Attendees

Anyone is welcome, please sign up if you plan to attend:

Steve Pieper, Haytham Elhawary, Jan Gumprec, Andriy Fedorov

Questions

The name in parenthesis defines the person who asks the question, and therefore is responsible for documenting the response.

• Best debugging practices in Slicer (hints for debugging on Linux/Windows, debugging GUI event handling) (Fedorov)

• What existing modules in Slicer can serve as a good examples to follow (examples of good programming style, GUI, architecture, etc.)? (GradientAnisotropicDiffusion is one?) (Fedorov)

• What are the prerequisites of what a novice Slicer developer should know/learn to program in Slicer? (C/C++, CMake, ITK, VTK, Tcl/Tk, KWWidgets (?)) (Fedorov)

• Advantages and disadvantages of writing parts of the modules in Tcl (example advantage: no recompilation is needed to make changes) (Fedorov)