[ome-devel] Launching VisBio from the OME web interface

[Tom Macura]

Hey Curtis,

I embedded your JNLP magic into the OME web-ui. Committed to HEAD.
To see it in action view Image Detail and click on 'View Image in  
VisBio' (under Original Files).
Now you can do e.g.: OME::Web::VisBio&ImageID=3.

Probably the most relevant file for you to play with is:
http://cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/horde/chora/co.php?f=/OME/src/perl2/ 
OME/Web/VisBio.pm&r=NONE

It would be better if you passed the session-key to VisBio because then  
the user password won't have to be entered.
I noticed that if VisBio is currently running on the client and I open  
another image through JNLP, another VisBio is launched. That's far from  
ideal.

Please let me know how things work out for you,

Tom

On Mar 27, 2005, at 4:58 AM, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> Hi Josiah, and everyone,
>
> I added support in VisBio for downloading images from OME. Right now,  
> you have to provide an image ID, which isn't the most user-friendly  
> requirement, but it's a start. With VisBio v3.00 beta4b or later, just  
> click "Add >", "OME image" on the Data tab.
>
> I added support for a command-line argument that causes VisBio to pop  
> up the OME login window upon startup, with the specified server and  
> username value (but still requiring you to type your password). An  
> image ID is also passed in, so as soon as you type your password  
> VisBio immediately begins downloading that image from the specified  
> server using your credentials. The format of this argument is:  
> "ome-image=user at server:id"
>
> I got VisBio working with Java Web Start. You can try it out at:
>     http://www.loci.wisc.edu/visbio/download_jws.html
>
> To get VisBio to launch from that page, you have to have Java3D  
> installed (for some reason, the JWS class loader barfs if there is no  
> Java3D, even though VisBio should normally work without Java3D  
> installed).
>
> I wrote a simple perl script for dynamically generating a JNLP file to  
> launch VisBio with the aforementioned command line argument. The  
> script is very simple, and just takes arguments using the GET  
> protocol. I have set up a test web page demonstrating all of this:
>    http://skyking.microscopy.wisc.edu/curtis/visbio-ome.html
>
> What should happen is that the OME web interface should have a link  
> somewhere that says "Launch in VisBio" that links to dynamically  
> generated content similar to that produced by the visbio-ome perl  
> script. You could just use visbio-ome.jnlp if you want, with an href  
> of the form "visbio-ome.jnlp?username+server+imageId", or you could  
> figure out an alternative, since my way is kind of an ugly hack  
> (especially using the ".jnlp" extension when in fact it is a perl  
> script).
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> -Curtis
>
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