[ome-devel] Thumbnail_Figure.py

[Woodbridge, Mark R]

This is something we'd like to see too... at the moment users have to type in the dataset id.

Mark.
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From: ome-devel-bounces at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk [ome-devel-bounces at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk] On Behalf Of Will Moore [will at lifesci.dundee.ac.uk]
Sent: 19 January 2011 15:33
To: Jerome Avondo
Cc: OME developers
Subject: Re: [ome-devel] Thumbnail_Figure.py

Hi Jerome,

Seems like this is a popular request, since it has recently been requested in the forums:
https://www.openmicroscopy.org.uk/community/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=549&sid=9c8d00275f1909280ead33b1e60b52c5

Insight has a hard-coded recognition of "Thumbnail_Figure.py" and some other scripts and uses a custom UI (not a UI generated from the script itself).
As you saw, Insight doesn't display the "Data_Type" or "IDs" fields from the script, but instead it populates them 'behind the scenes' using the currently selected Images / Datasets.

What we have discussed doing is using a conventionally-named parameters in the Python scripts to indicate to Insight that you want these auto-filled based on the current selection.

E.g. Use "Data_Type" and "IDs" exactly like in the Thumbnail Figure script.

I've created a ticket for this:
http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/ticket/3922

 Cheers,

   Will.



On 19 Jan 2011, at 15:07, Jerome Avondo wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to replicate/understand the imageID selection behaviour of the Thumbnail_Figure.py script.

Basically I want a script that is able to get the ImageIds either by:

1) A user selects multiple images in a dataset then runs the script,
2) A user selects multiple datasets then runs the script,

>From this I want for 1) all the imageIDs of the selected images, and for 2) all the ImageIDs belonging to the datasets selected.
>From what I have seen the Thumbnail_Figure.py does exactly what I want.

And it does this by having call paths for either Images or Datasets using the "Data_Type" variable.
However I don't understand a few things,

How does the script actually distinguish the Data_Type, as it always seems to be the default value when I run it from the command line, ie with debug output etc, so I can trace whats happening. Even when I give it the ID of an Image it still has Data_Type as a dataset. I'm guessing the command line execution is missing a step that's happening in the GUI/insight execution.

Secondly how come you set the

        scripts.String("Data_Type", optional=False, grouping="1",
            description="The data you want to work with.", values=dataTypes, default="Dataset"),

But this is never shown in the GUI, how does it know to "hide" it, where is this being specified?
Thanks,

Jerome.
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