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Main Application GUI organization

Slicer3's Application GUI provides top-level access to most commonly-used features, organized into logical groupings. These feature groups are presented in a number of persistent interface panels on the GUI, as is illustrated below. (Figures A through H in the gallery at the top of this page provide richer detail and will be described in sections below.)

SlicerGUIIntro.png

As shown above, the logical groupings of Slicer's interface elements include:

  • The Application Menubar
  • The Application Toolbar
  • The Main GUI Panel, which consists of:
    • Slicer's Logo Panel
    • The Module GUI Panel
    • The Slice Viewer Controls
    • The 3D Viewer Controls
  • The 3D Viewer
  • Three Main Slice Viewers (Red, Yellow, and Green)and additional Slice Viewers
  • The Message Bar and Progress Gauge
  • And the Error Log Button

An overview of the functionality provided in each of these interface elements is provided below.

Application Menubar

The Application menubar is at the very top of Slicer3's main window, as noted above and in Figure A. Its menus and functionality are briefly listed below.

File menu

File->Load Scene: Loads an existing scene

File->Import Scene Adds a scene to the one present in Slicer

File->Add Data

AppAddData.png

File->Add Volume

AppAddVolume.png

File->Save

AppSaveData.png

  • To save the scene (mrml file) you have to select the directory/folder and then provide a file name
  • To save a model/volume, FIRST select it for storing and THEN select the directory/folder.
    • to save as a different format, change the extension by clicking at the end of the string and then editing. nrrd is for nrrd files

File->Close Scene

File->Exit

Edit menu

Edit->Set Home

Edit->Undo

Edit->Redo

Edit->Edit Box

Edit->New Fiducial List

View menu

View->Module Search

View->Cache & RemoteIO Manager

View->Application Settings Interface

Window menu

Window->Hide Main Panel (F5)

Window->Hide Bottom Panel (F6)

Window->Toolbars

Window->Log Window (Ctrl+Alt+E)

Window->Tcl Interactor (Ctrl+T)

Help menu

Help->Browse Tutorials

Help->About Slicer3

Feedback menu

Feedback->Report a Bug

Feedback->Report a Usability Issue

Feedback->Make a Feature Request

Feedback->Community

Application Toolbar

Module GUI Panel

Slice Viewer Control Panel

3D Viewer Control Panel

  • Scene Snapshots
    • Scene snapshots are a good way to record a particular composition of a view. Among the things recorded are: Models turned on or off. Thresholds, window level, are the cross sections on or off, etc.
    • Click on the camera icon to record a scenesnapshot.
    • Use the pull down menu to select from a list of existing ones.
    • Click on the arrow to restore the view.

Main 3D Viewer

Slice Viewers & Controllers

  • Slice viewers can be used to specify oblique reformats using the 'Reformat' orientation (instead of axial, coronal, sagittal) and CTRL-Right-Button-Move (subject to change).
  • On each viewer, there is a menu button in the upper left of the control pane that usually says "axial", "coronal", or "sagittal". There is a forth option that one can select from the button which is "reformat".

Window and layout configurations

AppGUIBasicConfigure.png

AppLayouts.png

Error Log

ErrorLog.png

Message and Progress Bar