Slicer:Developer Meetings:20050411

Slicer Developers Meeting

April 11, 2005, 2-3pm, at 1249 Boylston St., second floor demo room.

Topic: Release 2.5 to-do list, OpenTracker

Present: Steve Pieper, Katie Hayes, Haiying Liu, Nicole Aucoin, Eigil Samset, Wendy Plesniak

Slicer 2.5 Release

• postype cast not in gcc on slicerl, #define the cast, check the slicerl headers
• ITK 1.8
  • doesn't compile with gcc 3.4.x, but does with gcc 3.3.x
  • check ins for ITK with Bill's stuff, check compilers on platforms
  • get Andy to tag Slicer-2-5, with the Nrrd reader code
• VTK for our release 2.5
  • grid transform
  • sfont for queryAtlas
  • method wrapping to catch thrown errors
• solaris10 - nightly build without clean on library directories
• volume texture mapping - hit or miss where it works, warning already on it
• module suppression - good for release
• EM segment
  • defaults to 0 iterations in LocalSegment
  • Killian is responsible for merging his stuff, not for this release
• bfloat reader in the freesurfer readers module
• fmri engine - mostly ironed out
• ibrowser - one more thing to get checked in
• cvs repository lock
  • leave read access to everyone
  • bug fixes inserted manually by Steve, Katie, Nicole
  • branch on the working version
• transform volume
  • Alex and Katie write test script
  • document
• testing
  • make up test script template
  • xvfb for mac? need openGL support
  • if time
• dtrmi - ask programmers if it will be ready for the freeze
• View -> lights tab under linux
  • if ran mouse over scale it causes freeze up
  • had a binding to a command
  • in lead lihgt only 1 slider is active
  • all buttons and slider - command to one proc, sets vars, enables and disables sliders (could be called from inside slider)
  • get Mike to revamp it
• tarup.tcl - give out cxx as well
• comment - add cxx to the script that generates comments in the source code
• OS names versus variables in the scripts
  • enviroment variables? they have to persist through launch.tcl
  • enumerate all windows values? only support win2k going forward

OpenTracker

• Eigil implemented much of it
• added another server in Locator module, set xml file
• testing under linux now
• have tracker distinct to scene, link in to transforms in tcl
• license
  • consider Slicer as a system on which you run tracker? If link to a library, by strict GPL, now part of it.
  • GPL not really compatible with the aims of the hospital, vtk, kitware
  • OpenTracker offered us a commercial license, ask for a third option?

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