ICY StartGuide

Welcome to the ICY startGuide. We believe watching some examples is the better way to understand how to program plugins for ICY ! You can download those tutorial, either by the Tutorial workspaces or by downloading each plugin separately.

Documented tutorials

Follow those link to learn how to program plugin for ICY by the example !

• Tutorial: Hello World Plugin.
• Tutorial: How to Generate images of all type available.
• Tutorial: Getting the list of registered plugin.
• Tutorial: How to create a simple painter over a sequence (using interface)
• Tutorial: Creating a painter by extending AbstractPainter and managing drag
• Tutorial: How to process transparently any image data as input, work with it in double and then put them back to the original image, in the original format.
• Tutorial: How to use some math operation over full array, regardless of the type.
• Tutorial: Fancy animated painters
• Tutorial: Creating an Area ROI from code.
• Tutorial: Creating a painter displaying intensity chart of the pixel over ROIs
• Tutorial: Plugin Communication : SwimmingPool : How to send data to the swimming pool
• Tutorial: Plugin Communication : SwimmingPool : How to read and watch/listen data event of the swimming pool
• Tutorial: Creating a graphic user interface for your plugin with some components.
• Tutorial: How to use a template to have a simple plugin with an action button.
• Tutorial: How to listen to all major events of ICY. Painter added/removed, plugin started/closed, roi, focus, viewer (...)

• Tutorial: Creating a simple graph with JFreeChart within ICY

The first classes you should know about:

• A 2D XYC image : ICYBufferedImage
• The ZT manager of the images : Sequence
• The abstract class to write plugins : Plugin_
• The overlays : Painter and AbstractPainter

The more advanced classes you should know about:

• The communication between plugins : SwimmingPool ( accessible from Icy.getMainInterface().getSwimmingPool();