TubeTK/Events/2011.07.05

Danielle & Ilknur:

1) Yes, you should be able to pass fiberbundles as CLI parameters, using the XML tag:

<geometry [type="fiberbundle"]>

For example, see the "Labelmap Seeding" module - it has an output parameter "Output fiber bundle"

2) From JC's info today - CMakeLists to look at for Qt scripted modules (python): ~/Slicer4Trunk/Slicer4/Extensions/Testing/ExtensionTemplate/CMakeLists.txt

3) Current instructions for adding TubeTK CLIs to Slicer: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/TubeTK/Slicer

Note instructions to copy CLI's to Slicer directory: cp <YourTubeTKBuildDirectory>/TubeTK-Build/lib/TubeTK/Plugins/*tube*

    <YourSlicerDirectory>/lib/Slicer3/Plugins

We should want to specify <YourTubeTKBuildDirectory>/TubeTK-Build/lib/TubeTK/Plugins as the external module directory in Slicer's settings BUT this will cause a crash in Slicer because it tries to read the non-plugin executables as well:

> 4218 [] TRACE org.slicer.base.qtcore.qSlicerCoreIOManager - > registerIO qSlicerVolumesIO > 4478 [] TRACE org.slicer.base.qtcore.qSlicerCoreIOManager - > registerIO qSlicerFiberBundleIO > ASSERT: "!_moduleTitle.isEmpty()" in file > /home/andrey/Slicer/Slicer4/Base/QTCore/qSlicerModuleManager.cxx, line > 141 > Aborted > > Launch /usr/local/andrey/Slicer4-Qt-debug/Slicer-build/bin/SlicerQT-real > returned with error: child process exited abnormally >

In particular, this is because of TextCompareCommand and ImageCompareCommand, which should be changed to build somewhere else.

Additional small TODOs: - hide external ITK/VTK/CTK directories as advanced CMake parameters, or hide them completely so that they can only be specified on the command line