What's Changed

:boom: This release is the last one to support Qt4, VTK 8, C++98 and Python 2.7.

Improvements:

• ENH: Improve vtk scalars to colors widget by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/841
• ENH: Reduce warning logs during DICOM import by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/842
• ENH: Add python wrapping to functions in ctkVTKScalarsToColorsView and ctkVTKScalarsToColorsWidget by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/844
• ENH: Update version of QtTesting by @Xaxetrov in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/853
• ENH: Use display tables to allow showing derived and custom columns in DICOM browser by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/858
• ENH: Add ctkErrorLogAbstractModel to CTKCore library by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/864
• ENH: ctkMenuComboBox: Add completerMenu()/setCompleterMenu() by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/868
• ENH: ctkMenuComboBox: Ensure menu and completerMenu can be get and set from python by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/869
• ENH: Add direct access to widget items in ctkMatrixWidget by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/871
• ENH: Add qt to vtk image by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/882
• ENH: Update PythonQt by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/883
• ENH: DICOM browser rework by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/886
• ENH: Reduce memory usage of DICOM indexer by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/887
• ENH: Emit signals from ctkTransferFunctionItem for mouse events by @Sunderlandkyl in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/888
• ENH: Make applications use UTF-8 code page by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/902
• ENH: Accessibility improvements in DICOM classes by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/905
• ENH: Add patient display field for last study date by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/907
• ENH: Add checkBoxControlsButtonToggleState property to ctkCheckablePushButton by @Sunderlandkyl in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/908
• ENH: Allow setting DICOM thumbnail dimensions and resize function by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/910
• ENH: Make console message printing methods available in Python by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/912
• ENH: Add method to import selected files into DICOM browser by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/914
• ENH: Allow saving relative paths to settings by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/922
• ENH: Support build with vtk89 by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/934
• ENH: Adding support for VTK 9.0 by @kraehlit in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/936
• ENH: Allow ctkMessageBox to store any don't-show-again button roles in settings by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/941
• ENH: Reduce storage path length of files stores in DICOM database by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/942
• ENH: Ensure copyDirRecursively considers hidden directories and files by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/943
• ENH: Remove warning message when nullptr is used as vtkObject pointer event data by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/944
• ENH: add command and history properties to ctkConsole by @pieper in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/945
• ENH: Make DICOM database relocatable by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/946
• ENH: Improve filename sanitization in DICOM export by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/952
• ENH: Additional where conditions in DICOM table view; Safer SQL query by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/955
• ENH: Allow using custom DICOM schema and database update roles extern… by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/956
• ENH: Create roles instead of hard-coded DICOM display fields by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/963
• ENH: Make gradient opacity transfer function shift independently from opacity and color transfer functions by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/965
• ENH: Add DICOM displayed field generator rule factory by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/970
• ENH: Improve usability of Directory Button by using native dialog by @jamesobutler in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/973
• ENH: Impove DIMSE widget by @riep in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/994
• ENH: Added Qt multimedia component from PythonQt by @atracsys-sbt in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/992
• ENH: Add API to select items in the DICOM browser by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1002
• ENH: Update ctkUtils adding qListToQSet and qSetToQList by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1004
• ENH: Add ctk::endl and ctk::flush to fix endl deprecation warnings with Qt >= 5.14 by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1008
• ENH: Add ctk::modelChildIndex implementation accepting const model by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1014
• ENH: Add elide option to ctkPushButton and make ctkDirectoryButton elided by default by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1016
• ENH: Minor ctkVTKTextPropertyWidget improvements by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1017
• ENH: Improve ctkLanguageComboBox by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1019
• ENH: Add option on using system library by @liududu in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1020
• ENH: Add support for PBR material properties in material property widgets by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1022
• ENH: Improve navigation in DICOM browser tables by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1025
• ENH: Set focus proxy on ctkPathLineEdit by @ebrahimebrahim in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1026
• ENH: Improve ctkLanguageComboBox by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1028
• ENH: Update ExternalProjectDependency system based on commontk/Artichoke@ea920eb by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1029
• ENH: Set a continuous CTF for the ctkVTKScalarsToColorsView as an edi… by @MichaelColonel in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1032
• ENH: Add API to get message handler from ctkErrorLogAbstractModel by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1043
• ENH: Improve error log model API to allow log display in console by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1044
• ENH: Console improvements by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1045
• ENH: Improve robustness of Python code running in the console by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1046
• ENH: Expose removeCachedTags method in Python by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1056
• ENH: Update external projects by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/951
• ENH: Multi viewport layout by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1061
• ENH: Expose ctkPythonConsoleCompleter on the public CTK API by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1062
• ENH: Browser thumbnails by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1063
• ENH: follow symlinks in dicom indexing by @pieper in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1066
• ENH: Added python bindings for ctkCheckableHeaderView by @kerim371 in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/985
• ENH: Allow instantiation of more CTK objects in Python by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1078
• ENH: Remove irrelevant translatable strings by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1079
• ENH: Ensure ctk::copyDirRecursively skips hidden file by default by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1085
• ENH: Add "commit-message" GitHub Actions workflow by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1090
• ENH: Improve ctkUtils by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1089
• ENH: Add layout orientation to ErrorLogDockWidget by @Punzo in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1100

Documentation:

• DOC: Document fix to support building using Qt-5.12 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 by @al-sabr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/930
• DOC: Fix typos in the Libs/ subdirectory by @luzpaz in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1035
• DOC: Fix remaining doxy/source comment typos by @luzpaz in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1036
• DOC: Update README adding sections like Overview, Getting Started and Topics by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1101

Fixes:

• BUG: Fix build failure with vtk and testing enabled by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/840
• COMP: DCMTK 3.6.4 updated function signatures by @hjmjohnson in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/845
• COMP: Fix catch by value warning in ctkDICOMAppWidget by @phcerdan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/850
• BUG: Python3: Fix initialization of PythonQt module by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/857
• CI: Disable testing by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/855
• BUG: Fix Python console auto-completion by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/859
• COMP: Libs/DICOM: Fix warning and build errors by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/860
• BUG: Fix DICOM display fields merging by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/861
• BUG: Fix DICOM image size computation by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/865
• BUG: Fix crash if layout factory failed to create view from XML element by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/866
• BUG: Update ctkPythonConsole to support auto-completion including unicode characters by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/872
• BUG: Fix QtDesigner crash in debug mode by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/847
• BUG: Fix merging display table fields containing commas by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/875
• BUG: Fix PythonLibs handling by @kislinsk in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/874
• COMP: Ensure ctkFunctionExtractOptimizedLibrary can be used in dependent project by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/879
• BUG: Escape single quote in DICOM database SQL statement by @cpinter in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/881
• BUG: Fix unexpected camera position change in ctkVTKRenderView::lookFromAxis by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/889
• BUG: typo in ctkDICOMDatabase by @issakomi in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/892
• BUG: Attempt to fix crash when opening database created with old schema by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/893
• BUG: typo in database, signal not emitted by @issakomi in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/896
• BUG: Fix special character display in DICOM metadata viewer by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/903
• BUG: Fix warnings in ctk dicom classes by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/906
• COMP: Fix Qt4 build adding fallback implementation for qUtf8Printable() by @jcfr in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/909
• BUG: Fix font style in DICOM browser by @lassoan in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/916
• COMP: Fix various deprecation warning C4996 by @jamesobutler in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/915

Known issues

• ctkDICOMIndexer is broken due to invalid signal/slot connection

  • Regression introduced in 7bb0d9fdb (COMP: Fix Qt4/C++98 ctkDICOMIndexerPrivate build using literal signal/slot)
  • Fixed in subsequent release in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1124

• ctkFlowLayout minimum size computation is incorrect

  • Regression introduced in e663242 (COMP: Fix deprecated warning related to QWidget::getContentsMargins())
  • Fixed in subsequent release in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1125

New Contributors

• @hjmjohnson made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/845
• @issakomi made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/892
• @al-sabr made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/930
• @kraehlit made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/936
• @xriobe made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/948
• @rbumm made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/987
• @riep made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/994
• @atracsys-sbt made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/992
• @liududu made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1020
• @ebrahimebrahim made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1026
• @markasselin made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1027
• @MichaelColonel made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1032
• @luzpaz made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1034
• @mhdiop made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/1067
• @kerim371 made their first contribution in https://github.com/commontk/CTK/pull/985

Full Changelog: https://github.com/commontk/CTK/compare/2018-10-29...2023.07.13