Displaying Popup Messages & Loading Slicelet in Main Window

[gslle924]

I’m working on adding modules to the main Slicer window and ran into a couple of issues:

Problem 1: Popup Messages when Loading Data

I’d like to display a popup message whenever I load DICOM and non-DICOM (e.g., VFF) data. I tried using the following code:

slicer.app.processEvents()  

# qt.QMessageBox.information(None,"Done","DICOM files loaded successfully.")  
self.delayDisplay("DICOM files loaded successfully.")  

However, this did not work for either DICOM or VFF files. Am I missing something in how/where this should be called?

Problem 2: Load Slicelet in Main Window

I would like to load my Slicelet directly within the main Slicer window instead of having it open in a separate window. What is the recommended way to achieve this?

[cpinter]

The Issues are for concrete bugs or feature requests, not for discussions. I recommend using https://discourse.slicer.org (for next time)

Problem 1.

To get notified about finished DICOM loading you can do this:

    # Override onLoadingFinished to use customized function that sets window title and performs patient checks
    dicomWidget = slicer.modules.dicom.widgetRepresentation().self()
    dicomWidget.browserWidget.onLoadingFinished = self.onDicomLoadingFinished

Problem 2.

This is the difference between slicelet and "guidelet". Slicelets were the first generation custom Slicer applications, but unfortunately the gel dosimetry slicelet did not have continued funding, so its maintenance has stopped. If you want to update it to a guidelet, let me know and I can give you some guidance. For starters, you can look at some other examples, such as https://github.com/SlicerIGT/LumpNav/tree/master (I think). Lately I only use Slicer custom applications (see https://github.com/KitwareMedical/SlicerCustomAppTemplate).