Note: 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