arceliver / cornerstoneWebImageLoader

Cornerstone Image Loader for Web Images (PNG, JPEG)

cornerstone Web Image Loader

A cornerstone Image Loader for web images (PNG, JPEG).

Project Status

Alpha but stable

Live Examples

Click here for a live example of this library in use!

Install

Get a packaged source file:

• cornerstoneWebImageLoader.js
• cornerstoneWebImageLoader.min.js

Usage

Simple include the cornerstoneWebImageLoader.js in your HTML file after you load cornerstone.js and it will automatically register itself with cornerstone to load imageId's that have the http or https url schemes. To display an image, pass the url to the image as the imageId parameter to a cornerstone API function like enable() or showImage()

Key Features

• Provides a bridge between the cornerstone library and standard web images

Build System

This project uses grunt to build the software.

Pre-requisites:

NodeJs - click to visit web site for installation instructions.

grunt-cli

npm install -g grunt-cli

bower

npm install -g bower

Common Tasks

Update dependencies (after each pull):

npm install

bower install

Running the build:

grunt

Automatically running the build and unit tests after each source change:

grunt watch

Backlog

• Consider alternatives to jQuery for deffered (when.js?)
• Add error handling

Why is this a separate library from cornerstone?

Cornerstone was designed to support loading of any kind of image regardless of its container, compression algorithm, encoding or transport. This is one of many possible image loaders that can provide the image pixel data to cornerstone to display

Copyright

Copyright 2014 Chris Hafey [e-mail]