Plugins

Plugins

The functionality of MaSIV can be extended by the creation of plugins. Plugins are started from the plugins menu in the main MaSIV window. The tutorial plugins are for developers who wish to learn how to write their own and can be disabled from the preferences file. Certain core plugins are included. Additional plugins can be installed using the plugin manager (for now, see description in the first link below):

• neurite tracer
• cell counter
• nifi display
• three channel overlay

Writing plugins

Like the rest of MaSIV, the plugins are written using object-oriented code. Each plugin is a class that inherits masivPlugin. Please see the tutorial plugins for getting started. If you want something more complicated, the neurite tracer plugin is quite heavily commented.