new to slicer development, saw this tutorial and they seem to use an IDE that supports autocompleting statements unique to slicer as in the python interactor:
what IDE could i use for that feature ( or how to add slicer API support to IDEs like pycharm?)
Thanks for your help.
The easiest and most robust way of getting auto-complete in an IDE is to attach a Python debugger put a breakpoint in the code where you want to add more code, and make the code stop there.
Auto-complete without debugging relies on static code analysis, which does not work very well for the dynamically constructed Python-wrapped C++ objects that Slicer and its libraries use, but you can give it a try. Specify “PythonSlicer” executable as your Python interpreter for the IDE. I’ve found that Eclipse (LiClipse) auto-complete and documentation lookup works reasonable well. Last time I tried, PyCharm’s skeleton generation failed for many components. I have reported the issue, but there was no follow-up. The issue can be fixed manually by patching of the skeleton generator, but maybe Python wrapping of VTK should be improved instead to make it more friendly to current IDEs.
i will try that, thanks a lot!!
Would have some more specific feedback regarding this ?
I think this is already on David Gobbi’s radar - see for example https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-8-2-python-and-vscode/704/3