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Simple Editor for Python Scripting

Key Investigators

• Oshane Thomas (Seattle Children's Research Institute, USA)
• Murat Maga (Seattle Children's Research Institute, USA)
• Steve Pieper (Isomics, Inc, USA)
• Sara Rolfe (Seattle Children's Research Institute, USA)

Presenter location: Online

Project Description

A built-in simple text editor for python scripts has been discussed on the Slicer forum before. We would like to discuss design issues around this and hope to have a basic prototype (or two) by the end of PW.

Objective

1. Support python syntax highlighting
2. Direct highlighted code from the editor to python console (e.g., right click interaction)
3. Embed scripts into the scene.
4. Code autocompletion.

Approach and Plan

1. Describe specific steps of what you plan to do to achieve the above described objectives. No specific approach has been developed just yet.

Progress and Next Steps

1. Describe specific steps you have actually done.

So far we have a brief web-based mock-up from Steve Pieper: https://github.com/pieper/SlicerEditor

We also have a slicer module mock-up from Oshane Thomas:

https://github.com/oothomas/SlicerMorph/tree/downloading/SlicerEditor

• This week we compared features and issues. Althought we prefered the simplest approach, the features of monaco editor (the core of VS code) convinced us to go with that approach.
• We developed a way to host monaco with out networking
• We determined a small subset of monaco that is small enough to distribute in an extension
• We tested with Sara and Chi and they like it!
• We will make a stand-alone extension that can be used by SlicerMorph and other use cases

Illustrations

Background and References

https://discourse.slicer.org/t/support-python-text-highlighting-in-text-module/34511