Thursday, August 12, 2010

Opticks Extension Development Quick Start - Updated for latest Opticks 4.4.0 Release

I've updated my Quick Start for Opticks Extension Development since Opticks 4.4.0 was just released. You can use this on Windows to get started and only need to download this, which is 33MB instead of the regular Opticks Windows SDK, which is 290MB.

So, what do you get out of the Quick Start?
Download it, double-click on two batch files and you will have two tutorial plug-ins compiled and installed into your Opticks install that you can start using with a sample data file that's been bundled into the Quick Start. From there you can modify these plug-ins or create your own using the instructions bundled in the Quick Start.

So, what do you need?
  • Quick Start Download
    • exe - this is a self extracting 7z, just double-click. No need to install anything.
    • OR
    • 7zip - if you don't want to use above self extracting exe. You should download and install 7-Zip File Manager to extract this.
  • Opticks 4.4.0 32-bit
  • Python, 2.5 or 2.6 are known to work.
Then unzip the Quick Start package and open the README.html in your web browser for further instructions. You'll be up and running in 15 minutes, probably less.