On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Tony Yu tsyu80@gmail.com wrote:

Plugin system

It might be nice to have some sort of plugin system for the image viewer. That way, tools like this could be implemented a bit more easily and, also, easily added to the viewer or ignored by the user.

At the moment, we basically have a double-viewer implementation: simply vs fancy. So we separate out

imshow(x) and imshow(x, fancy=True)

agree to an extent. Nevertheless, I think providing a viewer that supplies *an infrastructure* for creating GUI tools might be really valuable. I haven't really thought through what this plugin system would look like, so it may just be a pipe dream.

This is a tricky problem (which set of tools to use, etc.)--but in principle, it would be nice to have a few standard viewers, e.g., image compare, image compare + parameter adjust, mask editor (to build custom filters, e.g.) and image inspector (like the one you and Guillaume are working on).

Stéfan