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Finetjul: /* Building Slicer with Qt */

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Building Slicer with Qt

Finetjul at 23:20, 10 November 2009

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Nicole: /* Building Slicer with Qt */

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Building Slicer with Qt

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 * KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:KWWidgetsTransferFunctionEditors.png Transfer Function Editors]. ParaView (BSD) and Maverick share a [[File:ParaViewTransferFunctionEditor.png|similar transfer function editor]] that is not as elaborated as KWW's, though this might do the trick for now. ParaView recently added a second (user-contributed) [[File:ParaViewTransferFunctionEditor2.png|transfer function editor]] that provides free-form and gaussian curves.
-* KWW's [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Modules:MainApplicationGUI-Documentation-3.4#Slicer_Viewers Collapsible Frames]. The first (easiest) solution is to use a [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qgroupbox.html#details QGroupBox] and manually connect the checked SIGNAL with the setVisible SLOT of all the children. You would get the same behavior (a checkbox on the left of the title instead of a cross and arrow on the left). The second solution is to inherit from QGroupBox and change the display (change the mark in the checkbox display to have + and -). [[File:QGroupBox.png|screenshot for both solutions]]. Qt also offers tab widgets and toolboxes widgets to save space.
+* KWW's [[Modules:MainApplicationGUI-Documentation-3.4#Slicer_Viewers|Collapsible Frames]]. The first (easiest) solution is to use a [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qgroupbox.html#details QGroupBox] and manually connect the checked SIGNAL with the setVisible SLOT of all the children. You would get the same behavior (a checkbox on the left of the title instead of a cross and arrow on the left). The second solution is to inherit from QGroupBox and change the display (change the mark in the checkbox display to have + and -). [[File:QGroupBox.png|screenshot for both solutions]]. Qt also offers tab widgets and toolboxes widgets to save space.
 * KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:EMSegmentationModuleWizardAnimated.gif Wizard] classes. Qt provides sophisticated [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qwizard.html#wizard-look-and-feel QWizard] classes, as well as a [http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/Utilities/qt-state-machine-framework/ Qt State Machine] framework. It is not clear if a Qt Wizard can be embedded inside another widget, since it inherits QDialog.

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-[http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer QtSlicer]&larr;<br><br>
+[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer|QtSlicer]]&larr;<br><br>
 This page captures the design considerations about moving Slicer3 from KWWidgets to [http://qt.nokia.com/ Qt].  As of August 2009 there are no concrete plans for a switch; however there is significant momentum around Qt as an open source technology and interest in making it available to the Slicer community.
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 * KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:KWWidgetsCoreWidgetsOverview.png Thumbwheel]. Qt provides a [http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/Widgets/qtthumbwheel QtThumbWheel]
-* KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:KWFileBrowserDialogExample.png FileBrowser] set of classes. Qt provides a [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qfiledialog.html#sidebarUrls QFileDialog] class. It uses the native file dialogs on Win32/MacOS, and [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qfiledialog.html#sidebarUrls a different one] on Unix, though it can use the same non-native dialog on all platforms. It can be set to pick directories only; a combination of QFile and QDirView can achieve a [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/images/dirview-example.png similar/better result]. ParaView uses a custom (rewritten) [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/File:ParaViewQtFileDialog.png File Dialog] to handle client-server file browsing. Load/Save buttons are trivial to implement.
+* KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:KWFileBrowserDialogExample.png FileBrowser] set of classes. Qt provides a [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qfiledialog.html#sidebarUrls QFileDialog] class. It uses the native file dialogs on Win32/MacOS, and [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qfiledialog.html#sidebarUrls a different one] on Unix, though it can use the same non-native dialog on all platforms. It can be set to pick directories only; a combination of QFile and QDirView can achieve a [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/images/dirview-example.png similar/better result]. ParaView uses a custom (rewritten) [[File:ParaViewQtFileDialog.png|File Dialog]] to handle client-server file browsing. Load/Save buttons are trivial to implement.
 * KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:VtkKWColorPickerDialog_Classes.png Color Picker]. Qt provides a [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qcolordialog.html#details QColorDialog], [http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/Widgets/qtcolorpicker QtColorPicker], [http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/Widgets/qtcolortriangle QtColorTriangle] and [http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/Widgets/qtcolorcombobox QtColorComboBox]. It is worth noting that QColorDialog offers basic colors (swatches), custom colors, RGB/HSV sliders on Win32/Unix, but uses a much more elaborate (native?) [http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/guide/images/jcolorchooser.png dialog on Mac].
-* KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:KWWidgetsTransferFunctionEditors.png Transfer Function Editors]. ParaView (BSD) and Maverick share a [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/File:ParaViewTransferFunctionEditor.png similar transfer function editor] that is not as elaborated as KWW's, though this might do the trick for now. ParaView recently added a second (user-contributed) [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/File:ParaViewTransferFunctionEditor2.png transfer function editor] that provides free-form and gaussian curves.
+* KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:KWWidgetsTransferFunctionEditors.png Transfer Function Editors]. ParaView (BSD) and Maverick share a [[File:ParaViewTransferFunctionEditor.png|similar transfer function editor]] that is not as elaborated as KWW's, though this might do the trick for now. ParaView recently added a second (user-contributed) [[File:ParaViewTransferFunctionEditor2.png|transfer function editor]] that provides free-form and gaussian curves.
-* KWW's [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Modules:MainApplicationGUI-Documentation-3.4#Slicer_Viewers Collapsible Frames]. The first (easiest) solution is to use a [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qgroupbox.html#details QGroupBox] and manually connect the checked SIGNAL with the setVisible SLOT of all the children. You would get the same behavior (a checkbox on the left of the title instead of a cross and arrow on the left). The second solution is to inherit from QGroupBox and change the display (change the mark in the checkbox display to have + and -). [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/File:QGroupBox.png screenshot for both solutions]. Qt also offers tab widgets and toolboxes widgets to save space.
+* KWW's [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Modules:MainApplicationGUI-Documentation-3.4#Slicer_Viewers Collapsible Frames]. The first (easiest) solution is to use a [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qgroupbox.html#details QGroupBox] and manually connect the checked SIGNAL with the setVisible SLOT of all the children. You would get the same behavior (a checkbox on the left of the title instead of a cross and arrow on the left). The second solution is to inherit from QGroupBox and change the display (change the mark in the checkbox display to have + and -). [[File:QGroupBox.png|screenshot for both solutions]]. Qt also offers tab widgets and toolboxes widgets to save space.
 * KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:EMSegmentationModuleWizardAnimated.gif Wizard] classes. Qt provides sophisticated [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qwizard.html#wizard-look-and-feel QWizard] classes, as well as a [http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/Utilities/qt-state-machine-framework/ Qt State Machine] framework. It is not clear if a Qt Wizard can be embedded inside another widget, since it inherits QDialog.
-* KWW's [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/File:ParaViewTransferFunctionEditor2.png Range and Extent] Widgets. JS will show how to develop a [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/File:QtSlicerDemoScreenshot-0.2.png Range slider] in a few minutes (ok, say a couple hours).
+* KWW's [[File:ParaViewTransferFunctionEditor2.png|Range and Extent]] Widgets. JS will show how to develop a [[File:QtSlicerDemoScreenshot-0.2.png|Range slider]] in a few minutes (ok, say a couple hours).
-* KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:KWWidgetsLogDialog.png error/info log window]. A Qt [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/File:KWQtLogDialog.png Log Dialog] was developed internally at Kitware (SB), and could most likely be reused.
+* KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:KWWidgetsLogDialog.png error/info log window]. A Qt [[File:KWQtLogDialog.png|Log Dialog]] was developed internally at Kitware (SB), and could most likely be reused.
-* KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:KWWidgetsCoreWidgetsOverview.png Multi Column Widget and Tree]. Qt provides a sophisticated [http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/Widgets/qtpropertybrowser/ Qt Property Browser], as well as a large set of classes part of its [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/model-view-introduction.html Model/View Framework], including [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/model-view-view.html#using-an-existing-view tree, list and tables views/widgets], delegates, selection models, drag&drop, etc. See how it is used in Kitware's [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/File:ScreenshotMerlinByKitware.png Merlin/Maverick].
+* KWW's [http://www.kwwidgets.org/Wiki/Image:KWWidgetsCoreWidgetsOverview.png Multi Column Widget and Tree]. Qt provides a sophisticated [http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/Widgets/qtpropertybrowser/ Qt Property Browser], as well as a large set of classes part of its [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/model-view-introduction.html Model/View Framework], including [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/model-view-view.html#using-an-existing-view tree, list and tables views/widgets], delegates, selection models, drag&drop, etc. See how it is used in Kitware's [[File:ScreenshotMerlinByKitware.png|Merlin/Maverick]].
 * Undo/Redo. Qt offers a [http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qundo.html Undo/Redo framework].
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 == Building Slicer with Qt ==
-See [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/Tutorials/CompileWithQt How to build Slicer with Qt]
+See [[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/Tutorials/CompileWithQt|How to build Slicer with Qt]]

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	== Building Slicer with Qt ==		== Building Slicer with Qt ==
−		+	See [http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/Tutorials/CompileWithQt How to build Slicer with Qt]
−	* Download and install Qt. As of fall 2009, get [http://qt.~~nokia~~.~~com~~/~~developer~~/~~qt-4~~.~~6-technology-preview the 4.6 technology preview version].~~
−	** Windows - need to get source code and build with "configure.exe -platform msvc2008" run vcvars32.bat first and then nmake/
−	*** building with webkit support requires that src/3rdparty/webkit/WebCore/tmp/moc/{debug,release}_shared/mocinclude.tmp be removed. else you will get linker errors like QNetworkReplyHandler.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual struct QMetaObject const * __thiscall WebCore::~~FormDataIODevice~~::~~metaObject(void)const (?metaObject@FormDataIODevice@WebCore@@UBEPBUQMetaObject@@XZ)~~
−	** Linux/Mac - install full QtCreator package (snowleopard not yet supported in 4.5.2)
−	~~<pre>~~
−	~~cd Slicer3-lib~~
−	~~mkdir Qt~~
−	~~mkdir Qt-build~~
−	~~cd Qt~~
−	~~wget http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.0-beta1.tar.gz~~
−	~~tar xvfz qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.0-beta1.tar.gz~~
−	~~cd qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.0-beta1~~
−	~~echo yes \| ./configure -prefix ../../Qt-build -debug-and-release -opensource -no-qt3support~~
−	~~make -j 16~~
−	~~make install~~
−	~~</pre>~~
−	* Build VTK with Qt enabled
−	~~<pre>~~
−	~~cd ..~~/../~~VTK-build~~
−	~~../CMake-build/bin/ccmake .~~
−	~~Press 't' to enter advanced mode.~~
−	~~VTK_USE_GUISUPPORT~~ to ON
−	~~Press 'c' to configure.~~
−	~~VTK_USE_QVTK to ON~~
−	~~DESIRED_QT_VERSION to 4~~
−	~~Press 'c' to configure.~~
−	~~QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE to {path to}/Slicer3-lib/Qt-~~build~~/bin/qmake~~
−	~~Press 'g' to generate~~
−	~~make -j16~~
−	~~</pre>~~
−	* Build Slicer with Qt ~~enabled.~~
−	~~<pre>~~
−	~~cd ../../Slicer3-build~~
−	~~../Slicer3-lib/CMake-build/bin/ccmake .~~
−	~~Slicer3_USE_QT ON~~
−	~~Press 'c' to configure~~
−	~~QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE to {path to}/Slicer3-lib/Qt-build/bin/qmake~~
−	~~Press 'c' to configure and then press 'g' to generate.~~
−	~~make -j16~~
−	~~</pre>~~

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−	[http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer\|QtSlicer]←	+	[http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer QtSlicer]←<br><br>
	This page captures the design considerations about moving Slicer3 from KWWidgets to [http://qt.nokia.com/ Qt]. As of August 2009 there are no concrete plans for a switch; however there is significant momentum around Qt as an open source technology and interest in making it available to the Slicer community.		This page captures the design considerations about moving Slicer3 from KWWidgets to [http://qt.nokia.com/ Qt]. As of August 2009 there are no concrete plans for a switch; however there is significant momentum around Qt as an open source technology and interest in making it available to the Slicer community.

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		+	[http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer\|QtSlicer]←
	This page captures the design considerations about moving Slicer3 from KWWidgets to [http://qt.nokia.com/ Qt]. As of August 2009 there are no concrete plans for a switch; however there is significant momentum around Qt as an open source technology and interest in making it available to the Slicer community.		This page captures the design considerations about moving Slicer3 from KWWidgets to [http://qt.nokia.com/ Qt]. As of August 2009 there are no concrete plans for a switch; however there is significant momentum around Qt as an open source technology and interest in making it available to the Slicer community.

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 cd ../../VTK-build
 ../CMake-build/bin/ccmake .
-'t'
+Press 't' to enter advanced mode.
 VTK_USE_GUISUPPORT to ON
 VTK_USE_QVTK to ON
 DESIRED_QT_VERSION to 4
 QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE to {path to}/Slicer3-lib/Qt-build/bin/qmake
 make -j16
 </pre>
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 <pre>
 cd ../../Slicer3-build
-../../CMake-build/bin/ccmake .
+../Slicer3-lib/CMake-build/bin/ccmake .
 Slicer3_USE_QT ON
 </pre>

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 * Build VTK with Qt enabled
 <pre>
-cd ../VTK-build
+cd ../../VTK-build
 ../CMake-build/bin/ccmake .
 't'
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 VTK_USE_QVTK to ON
 DESIRED_QT_VERSION to 4
-QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE to ../Qt-build/bin/qmake
+QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE to {path to}/Slicer3-lib/Qt-build/bin/qmake
 </pre>
 * Build Slicer with Qt enabled.

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 cd qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.0-beta1
 echo yes | ./configure -prefix ../../Qt-build -debug-and-release -opensource  -no-qt3support
 </pre>
 * Build VTK with Qt enabled
 * Build Slicer with Qt enabled.