Hi,
I was wondering how to send python code from an external application ?
There’s not a standard way to send arbitrary python commands to slicer (and it might be considered unsafe in general). You could set up a socket to listen for strings and then execute them as python code. I have done experiments with embedding a web server in slicer and it can work.
We have been experimenting with using “Slicer” (or more generally application that are qt+pythonqt+ctk based as a jupyter/ipython kernel).
See https://github.com/commontk/QEmbedIPython and http://jupyter.org/
That said, there is nothing like this readily available in 3D Slicer.
Here what I envision:
- install a jupyter extension (e.g
pip install slicer-jupyter-bridge) in the jupyter interface. - install an extension in 3D Slicer using the extension manager
- and optionally you could even install something like itk-jupyter-widgets to visualize images directly in jupyter
Let us know if you have any questions
Cc: @thewtex
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It would be awesome to have all these. Can QEmbedIPython be already used with Slicer or there are still some unresolved issues?