Re: [mitk-users] [Extern] - Loading STL from Plugin Resource

[Mujassim J. <muj...@gm...>]

Thanks Stefan, that really helped.

Best,
Mujassim

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 at 13:48, Dinkelacker, Stefan
<s.d...@dk...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> as far as I know we do not support direct loading from Qt resources via IOUtil. If you want to load a resource you can use our own resource system, though:
>
> - Use one of the overloads of Load() that takes a us::ModuleResource instead of a path, e. g.:
>
> auto myStl = IOUtil::Load<Surface>(resource); // myStl is a mitk::Surface::Pointer
>
> - Where resource (us::ModuleResource) is typically loaded like:
>
> #include <usGetModuleContext.h>
> #include <usModuleResource.h>
>
> auto resource = us::GetModuleContext()->GetModule()->GetResource("my_stl.stl");
>
> If you call GetModule() from another module that does not contain the resource, you need to pass the name of the module to GetModule() like GetModule("MitkMyModule").
>
> To have the resource in your module in the first place, add the following to your module's files.cmake:
>
> set(RESOURCE_FILES my_stl.stl) # Or, if there are already resources, add my_stl.stl to the list.
>
> The file is expected to be located in "Resources/my_stl.stl".
>
> You find plenty of examples in the MitkSegmentation module.
>
> Best,
>
> Stefan
> ________________________________________
> Von: Mujassim Jamal <muj...@gm...>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. April 2025 06:45
> An: mit...@li...
> Betreff: [Extern] - [mitk-users] Loading STL from Plugin Resource
>
> Hello again,
>
> I’ve created a plugin and would like to load an STL file located in
> the 'resources/stl' folder within the plugin. I'm attempting to load
> the STL by passing the resource path (e.g.,
> :/org.mitk.customplugin/stl/my_stl.stl) to
> 'mitk::IOUtil::Load<mitk::Surface>'.
>
> However, I'm getting the following error:
> "Description File: :/org.mitk.customplugin/stl/my_stl.stl does not exist"
>
> The strange part is that when I check the resource using
> 'QFile::exists', it confirms that the file exists. Could this be an
> issue with 'IOUtil::Load' not supporting Qt resource file paths?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Best,
> Mujassim
>
>
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