[ome-devel] Customising OMERO client software

[Woodbridge, Mark R]

Hi,

I'm interested in modifying the OMERO client software (Importer and
Insight), initially with the following objectives:

 - Supporting a new file format (SPCImage .sdt, which is already
partially supported by the Bio-Formats library)

 - Making a couple of other minor customisations (cosmetic and
functional) to support our deployment at Imperial College London.

I have two questions related to this:

 - What is the quickest and easiest way to rebuild the clients? I've
tried 'java omero dist withtools' which does complete successfully but
takes a long time (including building the Blitz server), and when it has
completed I can't figure out how to run the clients!

 - A clean checkout of OMERO doesn't automatically build in Eclipse...
The source folders list doesn't look right and there are missing
libraries. Is there something I need to do make this work?

 - There appears to six copies of the Bio-Formats configuration file
(readers.txt) in the OMERO source tree. I'm assuming that I need to
modify this file in order to enable .sdt import, but which copy should I
modify? This is further complicated by the fact that I need to configure
the resultant SDTReader to flatten the lifetime planes, for which there
doesn't seem to be any hooks in OMERO.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,

Mark.

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Mark Woodbridge
CISBIC Data Management
Imperial College London