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The SLICE Framework
On this page, we provide complete documentation of SLICE from the script writer's viewpoint. In principle, this will be enough to write a new SLICE application from scratch, although the script writer will certainly benefit from looking at existing applications. Documentation for the existing apps - both for users and script writers - is included in the web pages for those applications. Source code for those apps - that is, the XML document and Python scripts - is included in the SLICE distribution.
The framework documentation is given in four parts. We recommend reading the first document, High-level architecture, and then the script documentation for one or more of the applications, followed by the remaining four documents here:
| High-level architecture: An overview of the architecture. |
New! Video tutorial: A two-part tutorial on writing Slice extensions. Part 1 (1 hr.) Part 2 (1 hr.) |
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| Scripting guide: Detailed explanation of the structure of an application's XML document, and documentation of the operations available for use in Python scripts. |
Scripting example: A worked-out example showing the addition of a feature to one of the existing apps.
Script debugging: Tips on debugging.
Tree drawing: A more formal version of the high-level architecture description (optional).