Control qupath interactively from python

[sdvillal]

This is easy on linux, almost impossible on macos, I have not tried on windows.

As an alternative, there are OS-dependent libraries that allow to instrument GUIs (for example, back in the day I had mild success instrumenting ImageScope using pywinauto).

[ap--]

Hmmm. We should definitely go with something that'll be supported on all platforms.

I've been looking at qupath's scripting interface and I believe it should be possible to write a minimal qupath plugin that just offers all of the scripting interface via libzmq.

[sdvillal]

I also thought about this, I initially thought it is not so simple. Having an "API server" in a running QuPath instance would require exposing quite a bit of non-trivial APIs (so we would need to somewhat marshall java object specifications back and forth).

[ap--]

I was thinking (as a production ready 🤣 hack) if it's possible to generate groovy on the python side, transmit via some messaging layer and execute in the qupath plugin.

[sdvillal]

Oh, so nasty, I like it!

A project we can look at is: https://github.com/imagej/pyimagej

[ap--]

Oh, so nasty, I like it!

We'll just need some perfume for the code smell 😄

A project we can look at is: https://github.com/imagej/pyimagej

nice! very interesting.

[sdvillal]

there is also imglyb and scijava, from the same people; still I prefer to have switched to jpype

[ap--]

(itemized from #4 )

[ap--]

Ha someone did the groundwork: https://github.com/arjvik/QuPath-Scripts

[sdvillal]

I had not seen that, good catch!