InVesalius Plugins

InVesalius Plugins

InVesalius has Plugin support, but there isn't a version released with this support yet. You have  to use the version under development from our github  repository https://github.com/invesalius/invesalius3. There is not a documentation about InVesalius plugin development but I have github repository with some plugins https://github.com/tfmoraes/inv_plugin_test1/. But it's basically:

1. Each plugin is inside a folder.
2. You have to use Python to interact with Python and wxPython to draw the interface. You can use other language like C, C++, Rust, Cython but the part that interacts with InVesalius has to be Python.
3. In its folder you have to have a __init__.py file (usually it's a empty file) because each plugin is a Python module.
4. A plugin.json file with this content:

{  
    "name": "Name of the plugin",  
    "description": "A little description of the plugin",  
    "enable-startup": false  
}

"enable-statup" can be false or true. It indicates if the plugin can be used without a image loaded (if true) ou not (if false).

5. a main.py file. This file must have a load() function where your plugin will start what is necessary, like create a interface.

6. After the plugin is loaded it can use all function inside the InVesalius. See the repository https://github.com/tfmoraes/inv_plugin_test1/ to use as example.

To see the folder where you have to put your plugin in InVesalius go the menu Plugins -> Open Plugins folder.