Posted by
dscho on
Jul 13, 2011; 8:30am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Rich-Client-Interface-for-ImageJ-tp3683907p3683910.html
Hi Marco,
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Marco LO wrote:
> I'm looking into the feasibility to implement an ImageJ rich client
> interface in Eclipse IDE or RCP. I checked the ImageJDev a.k.a. ImageJ
> 2.0 design
http://imagejdev.org/design, there is only a planned one
> based on the NetBeans RCP without a trace on the roadmap.
It is called 'envisaje', and a prototype is working as far as I can tell.
> Threre is an existing Eclipse RCP, Bio7
http://bio7.org/, incorporated
> ImageJ but only the toolbar, pulldown menus and the main image window
> are integrated. As far as I see, there are two options to do the
> Eclipse interface, either complete the Bio7 implementation or wait for
> the NetBeans RCP and port it to the Eclipse one.
There is already some SWT support, no need to wait. But I'd strongly
suggest to subscribe to the ImageJDev mailing list and announce what you
want to do, to avoid unnecessary, duplicate work!
> The rich client interface could be very helpful especially if ImageJ is
> used together with other software like that in Bio7, ecology, or any
> other displicine. It would boost efficiency dramatically.
I look forward to be convinced of that!
> I wonder how we could influence the ImageJDev team to finalize the
> NetBeans RCP plan or even add Eclipse in the paln given that ImagJ has
> so much diversified and so wide user bases.
Please do not lean on the ImageJDev team right now. It is a huge
undertaking to provide a generic foundation to image processing _and_ make
it backwards compatible with ImageJ. And most users will want to have the
user interface they are wont to anyway.
So if you want to have an ImageJ2 frontend based on the Eclipse Rich
Client Platform, I would _strongly_ recommend to discuss this with the
ImageJDev team, but in the end to Do It Yourself.
Ciao,
Johannes