MeVisLab Release Notes

SoAsciiText

CSOBulgeEditor, CSOFreehandProcessor, CSOIsoProcessor, CSOLiveWireProcessor, CSOModifyProcessor, CSOPrimitiveProcessor, CSOTransformationProcessor, SoView2DCSOEditor

SoFixedFunctionShader

SoAngleLines, SoAngleToObjects, SoCake, SoDistanceLine, SoMainAxis, SoMinimalDistance, SoRuler, SoShapeToPointSet, SoThresholdToPointSet,

SoScreenSpaceAmbientOcclusion

ImportDialog, OISettings, OpenImage, SaveImage

DicomBrowser, EatDicomImport, DicomService

Negation

AngleLines2D3D, DistanceLine2D3D, SimpleImageStatistics

ObjMgrEventClient (and all ObjectManager related modules)

LiveWireMacro

SwapViewer

BaseBypassOp

ConnectedComponents

ContourManager, Draw2D, LiveWire, RegionToContour

DistanceTransform

LoG

KernelFilter

WEMClip

MovieCreator

The following MeVisLab-specific Python packages were deprecated and have been removed:

The following MeVisLab-specific Python functions and methods were deprecated and have been removed:

Lots of old names of renamed functions and enums have been removed.

There still exists a Python script file to help in the renamings: Packages/MeVis/BuildSystem/BuildTools/Scripts/replaceDeprecated.py

You can use this script from MeVisLab with the MLReplaceDeprecatedAPI module.

Some methods were replaced because they returned a const char* object, where it was the recipient's duty to free the allocated memory afterwards. In these cases there are methods that take a std::string instead.

Some methods were removed because the task could nowadays as easily be performed with methods from the STL (or Qt).

The method ml::Module::calculateOutputImageProperties now has two arguments. The second one is the PagedImage on which to set the image properties (previously obtained with getOutputImage(outIndex)).

You might notice that trying to override the method with one argument now causes an error in the compiler. This is intentional, you need to override the method with two arguments.

getFieldContainer() isn't needed anymore, as ml::Module is derived from ml::FieldContainer anyway.

QGLWidget is no more. Use the newer QOpenGLWidget.

QRegExp has been superseded by QRegularExpression.

QTextCodec, QTextEncoder, and QTextDecoder have been removed (not exactly, they still exist in the QtCore5Compat package, which we don't include in the SDK). By default, Qt only supports Latin1 and UTF encoding.

The multimedia framework has undergone some refactoring.

MessageBox

MessageBoxExt

OverwriteVectorComponent

The default encoding of text files read or written by MeVisLab is now UTF-8, if not specified otherwise.

The window positions of modules in a network are now stored relative to the screen the IDE main window is on.

Added a new command line argument -prefs-variable to define/override a preferences variable (e.g., 'Locale=en_US').

Auto-completion for imports in the Python scripting console didn't work for namespace packages (PEP 420).

When searching for words in an editable text area with the search dialog, the highlighted words were hardly visible.

MATE: Fixed shortcut F7 being defined twice in the help editor.

When converting a local to a global macro, a dummy example network is now created automatically.

Ctrl+L doesn't just switch to the No Dock Windows layout now, but toggles between this layout and the previous one.

When changing the visibility of an connector by removing the hidden tag again, a reload of the module would not update the hidden state.

Fixed that a field comment from the Interface section is lost if the field is also listed in the Description section.

MATE: The project workspace search now supports multi-word search.

The MeVisLabStarter executable (on Windows) doesn't have any special functionality anymore, and is just needed to restart MeVisLab. It sets the -singleinstance command line parameter of MeVisLab though, so if you want to re-use a running instance of MeVisLab, you can continue using MeVisLabStarter or set the -singleinstance parameter yourself.

When opening a scripting console for the field of a module (through the context menu), it would not stay on top like other windows.

Fixed a crash on closing the IDE when the cache size in the GUI is updated one last time.

Fixed background color of screenshots of panels that included OpenInventor viewers.

The About dialog now has a link to the license text of MeVisLab.

The CodeTest module in the TestSupport package got an optional parameter for its inject function that allows to ignore output lines matching a regular expression before doing error detection.

Fixed Show Enclosing Folder context menu entry for wrapped CodeTests.

Python coverage ignores code in a site-packages directory by default (since it contains third-party code). Also added the ability to specify explicit inclusion of directories through the TestCenter config file ("InclusionExpression").

Images in test results are restricted in the displayed size (but can be expanded).

Avoid temporarily opening a console window on test cleanup (only happened on Windows).

If the TestCenter is running in secure mode on Linux, and a test crashes (with a segmentation fault), the TestCenter will try to give a stack trace (which might include the signal handler functions as top-level entries).

The generation of ThirdPartyInformation (About dialog) entries and dependency information for Python packages installed with PythonPip got more robust.

MeVisLab now comes with automatically generated .pyi files for the scripting wrappers available in MeVisLab. These should automatically be found by any Python IDE that uses our Python environment (through sitecustomize.py) and help with auto-completion and type checking. If you don't want this, set the environment variable MLAB_DISABLE_SITECUSTOMIZE to 1.

Fixed a crash on destruction of the SoViewportRegionWrapper.

Added the option to not create skeletons in MLGraphWrapper.createEdge.

MLABScriptProcess doesn't inherit file handles anymore by default.

Slightly changed the behavior of MLAB.setVariable(), which previously wouldn't change a value that was stored persistently.

The interface of the class returned by MLABGraphicsScene.addWebView has changed somewhat, because there is no native support for adding a web viewer to Qt's QGraphicsScene anymore.

Fixed layout of HyperLabel control with longer texts.

The Image control re-renders SVG images to the displayed size now.

Keyboard navigation/selection did not work for a RadioButtonGroup if it was attached to a field.

Button titles of ToolButtonGroups connected to enum fields were not translated.

The PythonTextView was buggy with regard to the syntax highlighting, which could lead to overlapping line numbers and crashes.

ml::CurveList and ml::CurveData are now derived from ml::RefCountedBase, which means that these classes should not be deleted explicitly by the user, but implicitly through the use of the CurveListPtr and CurveDataPtr classes. This also means that CurveList and CurveData can't be direct members of another class anymore.

Especially the interface of ml::CurveList has been adapted accordingly, with explicit methods for adding and removing of ml::CurveData objects.

When local macros share the same name, only the dependencies of one of these modules would be considered.

Determining DLL dependencies for stand-alone installers on Windows doesn't require an external tool like DependencyWalker anymore (and also became a lot faster).

MeVisLab 4.0 was built with and requires Visual Studio 2022 now.

Qt has been updated to version 6.6.3 (from 5.15).

The PythonQt scripting wrappers for Qt have been re-created.

Python has been updated to version 3.11.9 (from 3.9).

jemalloc isn't used by MeVisLab and not included in the SDK anymore.

MeVisLab now solely uses libjpeg-turbo for the JPEG file format. libjpeg is no longer included in the SDK.

CMake target names of some third-party libraries have changed (mostly upper/lower case).

The Python package asyncqt has been replaced by qasync to fix problems with aiohttp.

ITK has been updated to version 5.3.0, and the module wrappers have been updated, including newly introduced classes.

VTK has been updated to version 9.3.0. Almost all module wrappers have been removed, please use the Python bindings provided by VTK instead. Have a look at the example networks of the remaining bridge modules for how interfacing with MeVisLab modules works.

The Windows version now uses 7-Zip in its installer.

DicomImport:

We added an example DicomViewer application module to MeVisLab, which provides basic DICOM image viewing capabilities in 2D and 3D.

The clear button in the WEMInteract module now clears the drawn contour.

WEMModify updates the face normals now. This attribute is, e.g., used by WEMInfo to compute the volume of a WEM patch.

SignedEuclideanDistanceTransform: Fixed wrong output for example network if minValue and maxValue are set to 0.

SoCoordinateSystem rendered the text shadow in front of the actual text under certain circumstances.

CSOMerge did handle input notifications when auto update was set to off.

Most WEM modules that use PVLs (primitive value lists): Introduced checks for correct type (per-node, per-edge, or per-face).

WEMLoad: Introduced a new field for auto-loading of WEMs.

ConnectedComponentsToImage: Did set an invalid image extent if no cluster was selected.

WEMVascularSystem: Would hang indefinitely if the graph was completely outside the image extent associated with it (which could happen if you constructed the graph by scripting).

There is also now a field clipping which determines if the resulting WEM should be clipped to the associated image extent.

Added new color modes to So3DMarkerRenderer that use vector length/angle and use a LUT as color input.

WEMLoad now can load .ply files with one-based indexing (previously it crashed).

ImageStatistics: Fixed that the variance could get slightly negative due to rounding errors.

Fixed rare crash in SoCoordinateSystem if no axis was initialized.

The OutputInspector for images now allows to step through the user dimension with Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right.

Fixed: The code generated by the Project Wizard for modules derived from SoView2DExtension missed an important dependency.

Module DicomPRSave saves XMarkerList, StylePalette, and CSOLists Base objects as and in DICOM files of Grayscale Softcopy Presentation State IOD. See also MultiFileVolumeListPROutput.

Module FileEncrypter encrypts files using a new C++ API BinaryEncryption, but the currently implemented encryption method is internal to FME, so this module is only useful if you implement your own.

Module SoMLMatrixTransform wraps SoMatrixTransform to enable direct use of ML and numpy matrices (which are transposed relative to the matrices used by SoMatrixTransform).

DirectDicomImport resolves variables (such as $(NETWORK), $(TMPDIR) etc.) in fields Import Files and Import Directories in the Configuration panel.

Improved robustness of experimental MultiFileVolumeListPROutput.

LoadYAML and ReadYAML can now deal with Python tuples encoded with "!!python/tuple".

Macro module CachedPath and Python module file_caching now support pruning of the synchronization target folder, which is enabled by default.

Removed the unused/unsupported NoCache mode from the modules ImageCache and ImageCacheForNetworkLoops.

ThirdPartyLicenseReport: now reads 'homepage' as alternative to the 'url' key in .mlinfo files; and some other minor improvements.

The fmeTestSupport Python module now supports EXPECT_ERRORS().

The C++ Module base class XMarkerListProcessor now allows to specify a number of input images (for modules that combine image and marker data)