[ImageJ-devel] Developping new UI for ImageJ

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Cyril,

> What the difference between the DisplayService, ImageDisplay and
> ImageDisplayViewer ?

The DisplayService is the service for working with Displays. It is UI
agnostic, and should not need to be overridden.

ImageDisplay is a Display for image objects. These are UI agnostic.

ImageDisplayViewer is the actual UI-specific implementation (e.g.,
SwingImageDisplayViewer in imagej-ui-swing), which creates and shows the UI
components for the desired ImageDisplay.

> An image is open but who decide of what and how ?

The UIService responds to DisplayCreatedEvents, creating and showing a
DisplayViewer for each currently visible UI [1, 2, 3].

> Do I have to overwrite the ImageDisplayService or is it UI agnostic ?

The ImageDisplayService is a convenience service for working specifically
with ImageDisplays (rather than the more general Displays). It is UI
agnostic, and should not need to be overridden.

What you need to do is implement a JavaFXImageDisplayViewer, which will
then be used to display the UI component that visualizes the image (i.e.,
the Dataset, which is wrapped in a DatasetView, which is wrapped in an
ImageDisplay).

The current type hierarchy is at least one level too complex. FWIW, it
evolved this way so that ImageDisplays could be fully headless [4]. But
there are definitely ways to simplify the hierarchy. We will do it before
the ImageJ2 data model comes out of beta.

See also these issues:
* https://github.com/scijava/scijava-common/issues/157
* https://github.com/imagej/imagej-common/issues/12

Regards,
Curtis

[1]
https://github.com/scijava/scijava-common/blob/scijava-common-2.40.0/src/main/java/org/scijava/ui/DefaultUIService.java#L373-L380
[2]
https://github.com/scijava/scijava-common/blob/scijava-common-2.40.0/src/main/java/org/scijava/ui/AbstractUserInterface.java#L125-L162
[3]
https://github.com/scijava/scijava-common/blob/scijava-common-2.40.0/src/main/java/org/scijava/ui/DefaultUIService.java#L272-L277

[4] http://trac.imagej.net/ticket/995


On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Mongis Cyril <cyril.mongis at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hello everyone !
>
> I had to put the project on pause for a couple of week but now I'm back on
> it. First, thank you for your help. Thanks to you, I succeeded to put the
> FxUI as prior UI. Also the JavaFX App is started in ImageJ. I could even
> generate a menu and all. I can call the "Open file" plugin and it uses the
> JavaFX routines to show the file dialogs and all. It's great. However, not
> much happens after that. My next questions goes about to the ImageDisplay
> stack. I have troubles understanding the "call stack" after the image has
> been open. What the difference between the DisplayService, ImageDisplay and
> ImageDisplayViewer ? An image is open but who decide of what and how ? Do I
> have to overwrite the ImageDisplayService or is it UI agnostic ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Cyril
>
>
>
> 2015-03-26 18:23 GMT+01:00 Brian Schlining <bschlining at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On March 26, 2015 at 8:49:21 AM, Mongis Cyril (
>> cyril.mongis at googlemail.com) wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm currently embedding ImageJ in one my application but I use JavaFX for
>> the user interface. I would like to channel the image windows, which are
>> created and handled by ImageJ, to JavaFX elements. In other words, when a
>> plugin wants to display an image, this image would be displayed in a JavaFX
>> element.
>>
>>
>> I have some code that may help get you going. The source is under
>> https://github.com/hohonuuli/assignments-openimaj. Specifically, you
>> should take a look at the classes in
>> https://github.com/hohonuuli/assignments-openimaj/tree/master/src/main/java/org/mbari/javafx/scene/image
>>
>> The code there is pretty straightforward. I wrote this code for an image
>> processing course I was taking. You can display an image in a resizable
>> JavaFX Stage likes so:
>>
>> import java.net.URL;
>> import org.mbari.javafx.scene.image.*;
>>
>> JavaFX.namedWindow("My Window",
>>   new URL("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Lenna.png"));
>>
>> If you need a reference to the Stage you can do the following after
>> you’ve created it:
>>
>> Optional<ImageStage> stage = JavaFX.getNamedWindow("My Window");
>>
>> Anyway, it will at least give you a starting point. There’s a method that
>> takes a javafx.scene.image.Image
>> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/image/Image.html>
>> instead of a URL too. You’ll still need to implement a conversion between
>> ImageJ/imglib2 image formats and JavaFX’s Image. There’s also a Swing class
>> the does something similar (e.g. Swing.namedWindow(...) in the project.
>>
>> Good Luck
>>
>> – Brian Schlining
>>
>
>
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