It is very common for programs developed for the Unix platform to have its own configuration file. These configuration files are often called .XXXrc (e.g., .cambarc) and stored in the user's home directory. Furthermore, as more and more programs are ported from Unix to Windows, we are seeing an increase use of these configuration files on Windows platform. For ease of reference, in this article, these configuration files are referred to as RCFile. Any self-respecting User Interface program, like GenericFX, cannot afford to ignore these files and will try to integrate them into the User Interface. This article outline the strategy used in GenericFX to integrate these files. We used CamBAfx as an example, but the same principle applies to all programs. It is also important to note that alternative strategies can be developed and coexists side-by-side with this strategy.
Following our on-going effort to rework BAMM to use NifTI images, we decided to rename the software. The winner is CAMBA. CAMBA will be the name for the whole package, i.e., the software proper and the user Interface.
Unofficially, I (Cinly) will use CAMBAfx to denote my work on the CAMBA User Interface project.
Please do note that the image converters known as bammpp will be a separate project from CAMBA. It will become an optional plug-in for BrainFX.
The next article will discuss a few development plans worth considering and explore in 2006.
As everyone who subscribe to BAMM mailing list know, we are working on a nifti-enabled version of BAMM. Dr John Suckling, Dr Levent Sendur and Dr Alle-Meije Wink and I had been working on it since about July last year. There had been great progress on this front which we will report in detail later.
Today, we are happy to report that a milestone had been reached. The milestone is a simple demonstration data processing using BAMMfx for the fbamm pipeline. This demonstrator is of course available for evaluation on request. Simply send an email to Cinly.
A warm welcome to the blog for GenericFX. GenericFX is a Virtual Pipeline Editor designed to allow users to load and visually configure processing pipelines, and batch process data through it. It is build on the Ecllipse Platform. We, the development team, plans to use this blog to communicate with our users.
This is a combined blog for GenericFX, BrainFX and BAMMfx.