New Binary Release

We'd like to present a new binary release of CharonSuite for the Windows Plattform.

This time, there are quite a few changes to the core, so rebuilding your custom plugins
is necessary. The most important change is the introduction of a new cmake macro for creating
new plugin targets (ADD_CHARON_PLUGIN). A more detailed changelog can be found below.

Right now we only offer a x64 build. If you are in need of a 32 bit build, please contact us.

Changelog

Changes since last release from 30.11.2012:

general:

• improved docstrings and documentation generation
• dependency detection and cmake options should now work better
• Hekate is now included in the official release

charon-core:

• Plugins can be tagged with arbitrary keywords such as "optical flow" or "input/output"
• charon-core version string is automatically embedded in all shared libraries.(optional in *nix)
• Prevent loading of incompatible plugins by parsing the embedded version information. This should prevent many crashes and loading issues especially in windows
• Plugins can be deactivated by setting the now built-in "active" bool parameter. This allows to execute only parts of a workflow
• fixed crash when the same slot or parameter was added twice in the plugin constructor
• Plugin loading does now produce more informative error messages
• added a new macro for adding plugins to the cmake configuration (ADD_CHARON_PLUGIN)
• cleaned up generation of version and config files
• pushed charon-core version to 0.2.5.

charon-utils:

• ArgosDisplay:
  • show current zoom level in status bar
  • windows ize is now limited to the screen size
• EndpointError:
  • can use mask
• FileReader:
  • print size of final result to console
• FileWriter:
  • Files to load can be defined via slot
• BinOperatorCImg:
  • generate NormalDistribution
• Residualplotwidget:
  • removed, due to incopatible libs
• improved MathGL find script, now performs version check
• improved packaging
• New Plugins:
  • ScriptorVigra: export data as hdf5 and execute external scripts on it. by Mox, based on ScriptorCImg
  • DiscretizeByThreshold
  • Quantize

charon-flow:

• Multiple new flow algorithms

tuchulcha:

• can switch part of workflow on/off
• inactive plugins are marked red
• fixed crash when plugins are renamed
• can deactivate automatic reloading of plugins at startup via options dialog
• help browser will show the help page of the currently selected plugin in the workflow
• cleaned up and documented command line arguements for tuchulcha_run
• added options to switch version check on/off

templategenerator:

• use new ADD_CHARON_PLUGIN for generated CMakeLists.txt