[Gnumed-devel] GNUmed plugin development - part 1 reloaded

[Sebastian Hilbert]

http://gnumed.blogspot.com/2010/04/gnumed-plugin-developement-part-1.html

If you are just getting started with GNUmed, python and plugins I recommend 
you read over the series GNUmed plugin development for the basics.

GNUmed plugin develeopment reloaded

Back in the days I was about to develop a GNUmed plugin for pacemaker clinics. 
While doing this I came across a publication describing a dataset for cardiac 
echos so I started to develop a plugin for cardiac echocardiography.

A GNUmed plugin consists of three files. When all files are present it is 
picked up by GNUmed and can be activated/added for a specific workplace in the 
GNUmed database so it is loaded at startup. Part 4, 5 and 6 of my older series 
covered that aspect. This time around I am going to create the files from 
scratch.

Those three files are a foo.wxg file, a foo.py file that is generated from the 
wxg file and a wrapper file to tell GNUmed about the plugin. Optionally a 
fourth file can be used to seperate the widget from the rest of the code. This 
not neccessary however.

The four files can be downloaded here as one zip file. The directory layout of 
the zipped content is identical to where the files should go (e.g. 
'client\wxg', 'client\wxpython').

To activate the plugin open GNUmed and go to 'GNUmed'>'Master data'>'Workplace 
profiles'. Select 'GNUmed Default' or whatever workplace you want to configure 
and press 'edit' Select 'all plugins you want' and save your selection.

Restart GNUmed and go to the 'Cardiac echo plugin'. Up to now it is little 
more then a user interface. It does not do much. Next step is to read all the 
input fields and write it to an XML file. This XML file will then be stored in 
the database.