Developers Information

Slicer4 developer documentation is under development with the idea that tutorials and related information will be available to support work at the NA-MIC 2012 Project Week.

Requirements for Modules

The module is feature complete, i.e. it does everything that it advertises
The module has a test. See here for more information.
The module is fully documented. Template and How-to for the end user documentation.
The module complies with Rons rules for tool and the style guidelines, including color palette.
Use the logos in the List of Collaborators


Introduction Overview Overview of the development process. Mailing List Developers mailing list Intended for the discussion of programming related questions. Developers mailing list archives Search for priorly posted questions and answers on nabble.com Miscellaneous Image gallery Set of screenshots showing the different Slicer components. Slicer Style Guidelines Consistency and Readability for a manageable code base MediaWiki Extensions testing page This page serves as a MediaWiki sandbox. Developer Projects Pages for the developer projects.		Source Code SVN repository `svn checkout http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/trunk` Doxygen Source code API documentation. ViewVC (last commit) Web-based code repository viewer. Compile/Install Building instructions Compiling and installing Slicer from source. CDash (Quality Dashboard) Nightly, continuous and experimental dashboards. Releases Informations of Slicer releases Design & Implementation Modules Comparison between the different module types supported by Slicer Data Model - MRML Objects and their organization. MRML Library provides API for managing medical image data type. Logics Details the role of logics in Slicer and lists the different types such as displayable managers. Python scripting Presents the underlying infrastructure. Build system Details how Slicer is built and packaged.		HOW TO Use QtCreator Setup QtCreator with Slicer Create a loadable module Step by step tutorial to write C++ module Create an external loadable module Describes how to make a (Slicer / Qt) loadable module that is compiled outside of the slicer build tree. Create an extension Describes how to take your command line module or loadable module and turn it into an extension for Slicer 4.0 Debug How to debug Slicer. Troubleshooting Slicer Hints for narrowing down run time issues. Write a Widget for Slicer and Qt Designer Prerequisites, Notes, Coding style and step-by-step Use custom widgets in Qt Designer Use UI file from Slicer python Setup a dashboard Avoid memory leaks Pass data between Slicer and Matlab