CTK 2023.07

What's Changed

💥 This release is the last one to support Qt4, VTK 8, C++98 and Python 2.7.

Improvements:

• ENH: Improve vtk scalars to colors widget by @jcfr in #841
• ENH: Reduce warning logs during DICOM import by @lassoan in #842
• ENH: Add python wrapping to functions in ctkVTKScalarsToColorsView and ctkVTKScalarsToColorsWidget by @lassoan in #844
• ENH: Update version of QtTesting by @Xaxetrov in #853
• ENH: Use display tables to allow showing derived and custom columns in DICOM browser by @cpinter in #858
• ENH: Add ctkErrorLogAbstractModel to CTKCore library by @jcfr in #864
• ENH: ctkMenuComboBox: Add completerMenu()/setCompleterMenu() by @jcfr in #868
• ENH: ctkMenuComboBox: Ensure menu and completerMenu can be get and set from python by @jcfr in #869
• ENH: Add direct access to widget items in ctkMatrixWidget by @lassoan in #871
• ENH: Add qt to vtk image by @lassoan in #882
• ENH: Update PythonQt by @jcfr in #883
• ENH: DICOM browser rework by @lassoan in #886
• ENH: Reduce memory usage of DICOM indexer by @lassoan in #887
• ENH: Emit signals from ctkTransferFunctionItem for mouse events by @Sunderlandkyl in #888
• ENH: Make applications use UTF-8 code page by @lassoan in #902
• ENH: Accessibility improvements in DICOM classes by @cpinter in #905
• ENH: Add patient display field for last study date by @cpinter in #907
• ENH: Add checkBoxControlsButtonToggleState property to ctkCheckablePushButton by @Sunderlandkyl in #908
• ENH: Allow setting DICOM thumbnail dimensions and resize function by @cpinter in #910
• ENH: Make console message printing methods available in Python by @lassoan in #912
• ENH: Add method to import selected files into DICOM browser by @lassoan in #914
• ENH: Allow saving relative paths to settings by @lassoan in #922
• ENH: Support build with vtk89 by @jcfr in #934
• ENH: Adding support for VTK 9.0 by @kraehlit in #936
• ENH: Allow ctkMessageBox to store any don't-show-again button roles in settings by @lassoan in #941
• ENH: Reduce storage path length of files stores in DICOM database by @lassoan in #942
• ENH: Ensure copyDirRecursively considers hidden directories and files by @jcfr in #943
• ENH: Remove warning message when nullptr is used as vtkObject pointer event data by @lassoan in #944
• ENH: add command and history properties to ctkConsole by @pieper in #945
• ENH: Make DICOM database relocatable by @lassoan in #946
• ENH: Improve filename sanitization in DICOM export by @lassoan in #952
• ENH: Additional where conditions in DICOM table view; Safer SQL query by @cpinter in #955
• ENH: Allow using custom DICOM schema and database update roles extern… by @cpinter in #956
• ENH: Create roles instead of hard-coded DICOM display fields by @cpinter in #963
• ENH: Make gradient opacity transfer function shift independently from opacity and color transfer functions by @lassoan in #965
• ENH: Add DICOM displayed field generator rule factory by @cpinter in #970
• ENH: Improve usability of Directory Button by using native dialog by @jamesobutler in #973
• ENH: Impove DIMSE widget by @riep in #994
• ENH: Added Qt multimedia component from PythonQt by @atracsys-sbt in #992
• ENH: Add API to select items in the DICOM browser by @lassoan in #1002
• ENH: Update ctkUtils adding qListToQSet and qSetToQList by @jcfr in #1004
• ENH: Add ctk::endl and ctk::flush to fix endl deprecation warnings with Qt >= 5.14 by @jcfr in #1008
• ENH: Add ctk::modelChildIndex implementation accepting const model by @jcfr in #1014
• ENH: Add elide option to ctkPushButton and make ctkDirectoryButton elided by default by @lassoan in #1016
• ENH: Minor ctkVTKTextPropertyWidget improvements by @lassoan in #1017
• ENH: Improve ctkLanguageComboBox by @lassoan in #1019
• ENH: Add option on using system library by @liududu in #1020
• ENH: Add support for PBR material properties in material property widgets by @lassoan in #1022
• ENH: Improve navigation in DICOM browser tables by @lassoan in #1025
• ENH: Set focus proxy on ctkPathLineEdit by @ebrahimebrahim in #1026
• ENH: Improve ctkLanguageComboBox by @lassoan in #1028
• ENH: Update ExternalProjectDependency system based on commontk/Artichoke@ea920eb by @jcfr in #1029
• ENH: Set a continuous CTF for the ctkVTKScalarsToColorsView as an edi… by @MichaelColonel in #1032
• ENH: Add API to get message handler from ctkErrorLogAbstractModel by @lassoan in #1043
• ENH: Improve error log model API to allow log display in console by @lassoan in #1044
• ENH: Console improvements by @lassoan in #1045
• ENH: Improve robustness of Python code running in the console by @lassoan in #1046
• ENH: Expose removeCachedTags method in Python by @cpinter in #1056
• ENH: Update external projects by @jcfr in #951
• ENH: Multi viewport layout by @lassoan in #1061
• ENH: Expose ctkPythonConsoleCompleter on the public CTK API by @lassoan in #1062
• ENH: Browser thumbnails by @lassoan in #1063
• ENH: follow symlinks in dicom indexing by @pieper in #1066
• ENH: Added python bindings for ctkCheckableHeaderView by @kerim371 in #985
• ENH: Allow instantiation of more CTK objects in Python by @lassoan in #1078
• ENH: Remove irrelevant translatable strings by @lassoan in #1079
• ENH: Ensure ctk::copyDirRecursively skips hidden file by default by @jcfr in #1085
• ENH: Add "commit-message" GitHub Actions workflow by @jcfr in #1090
• ENH: Improve ctkUtils by @jcfr in #1089
• ENH: Add layout orientation to ErrorLogDockWidget by @Punzo in #1100

Documentation:

• DOC: Document fix to support building using Qt-5.12 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 by @al-sabr in #930
• DOC: Fix typos in the Libs/ subdirectory by @luzpaz in #1035
• DOC: Fix remaining doxy/source comment typos by @luzpaz in #1036
• DOC: Update README adding sections like Overview, Getting Started and Topics by @jcfr in #1101

Fixes:

• BUG: Fix build failure with vtk and testing enabled by @jcfr in #840
• COMP: DCMTK 3.6.4 updated function signatures by @hjmjohnson in #845
• COMP: Fix catch by value warning in ctkDICOMAppWidget by @phcerdan in #850
• BUG: Python3: Fix initialization of PythonQt module by @jcfr in #857
• CI: Disable testing by @jcfr in #855
• BUG: Fix Python console auto-completion by @jcfr in #859
• COMP: Libs/DICOM: Fix warning and build errors by @jcfr in #860
• BUG: Fix DICOM display fields merging by @cpinter in #861
• BUG: Fix DICOM image size computation by @cpinter in #865
• BUG: Fix crash if layout factory failed to create view from XML element by @jcfr in #866
• BUG: Update ctkPythonConsole to support auto-completion including unicode characters by @jcfr in #872
• BUG: Fix QtDesigner crash in debug mode by @lassoan in #847
• BUG: Fix merging display table fields containing commas by @cpinter in #875
• BUG: Fix PythonLibs handling ...