AHM2009:Plug-ins

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Slicer module types

• Built in modules
  • Slicer Base functionality
  • Access to full internals of Slicer
• Loadable modules
  • Optional modules distributed with Slicer
  • Third party modules
  • Access to full internals of Slicer
• Scripted modules
  • Written in Tcl or Python
  • Access to a subset of Slicer API (wrapped methods)
• Command line modules
  • Simplest way to add functionality to Slicer
  • XML specification of plugin parameters
  • GUI, Logic, Node automatically constructed
  • Limited access to Slicer data
  • Types
    • Executable modules
      • Can be run inside Slicer or in batch
    • Shared objects modules
      • Same source code style as Executable modules but with direct access to some data in MRML tree
    • Python modules
      • Similar coding style as shared object modules but in Python