Dock plugins to image viewer.

skimage/viewer/plugins/base.py

@@ -78,10 +78,13 @@ class Plugin(QtGui.QDialog):
     image_updated = pyqtSignal(np.ndarray)
     _started = pyqtSignal()
 
-    def __init__(self, image_filter=None, height=0, width=400, useblit=True):
+    def __init__(self, image_filter=None, height=0, width=400, useblit=True,
+                 dock='bottom'):
         init_qtapp()
         super(Plugin, self).__init__()
 
+        self.dock = dock
+
         self.image_viewer = None
         # If subclass defines `image_filter` method ignore input.
         if not hasattr(self, 'image_filter'):

skimage/viewer/viewers/core.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ImageViewer class for viewing and interacting with images.
 """
 from ..qt import QtGui
-from ..qt import QtCore
+from ..qt.QtCore import Qt
 
 from skimage import io, img_as_float
 from skimage.util.dtype import dtype_range
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ from ..plugins.base import Plugin
 __all__ = ['ImageViewer', 'CollectionViewer']
 
 
+dock_areas = {'top': Qt.TopDockWidgetArea,
+              'bottom': Qt.BottomDockWidgetArea,
+              'left': Qt.LeftDockWidgetArea,
+              'right': Qt.RightDockWidgetArea}
+
+
 def mpl_image_to_rgba(mpl_image):
     """Return RGB image from the given matplotlib image object.
 
@@ -67,16 +73,16 @@ class ImageViewer(QtGui.QMainWindow):
 
         #TODO: Add ImageViewer to skimage.io window manager
 
-        self.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose)
+        self.setAttribute(Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose)
         self.setWindowTitle("Image Viewer")
 
         self.file_menu = QtGui.QMenu('&File', self)
         self.file_menu.addAction('Open file', self.open_file,
-                                 QtCore.Qt.CTRL + QtCore.Qt.Key_O)
+                                 Qt.CTRL + Qt.Key_O)
         self.file_menu.addAction('Save to file', self.save_to_file,
-                                 QtCore.Qt.CTRL + QtCore.Qt.Key_S)
+                                 Qt.CTRL + Qt.Key_S)
         self.file_menu.addAction('Quit', self.close,
-                                 QtCore.Qt.CTRL + QtCore.Qt.Key_Q)
+                                 Qt.CTRL + Qt.Key_Q)
         self.menuBar().addMenu(self.file_menu)
 
         self.main_widget = QtGui.QWidget()
@@ -113,8 +119,33 @@ class ImageViewer(QtGui.QMainWindow):
     def __add__(self, plugin):
         """Add plugin to ImageViewer"""
         plugin.attach(self)
+        if plugin.dock:
+            location = dock_areas[plugin.dock]
+            dock_location = Qt.DockWidgetArea(location)
+            dock = QtGui.QDockWidget()
+            dock.setWidget(plugin)
+            self.addDockWidget(dock_location, dock)
+
+            horiz = (dock_areas['left'], dock_areas['right'])
+            dimension = 'width' if location in horiz else 'height'
+            self._add_widget_size(plugin, dimension=dimension)
+
         return self
 
+    def _add_widget_size(self, widget, dimension='width'):
+        widget_size = widget.sizeHint()
+        viewer_size = self.frameGeometry()
+
+        dx = dy = 0
+        if dimension == 'width':
+            dx = widget_size.width()
+        elif dimension == 'height':
+            dy = widget_size.height()
+
+        w = viewer_size.width()
+        h = viewer_size.height()
+        self.resize(w + dx, h + dy)
+
     def open_file(self):
         """Open image file and display in viewer."""
         filename = dialogs.open_file_dialog()
@@ -160,14 +191,16 @@ class ImageViewer(QtGui.QMainWindow):
 
     def auto_layout(self):
         """Move viewer to top-left and align plugin on right edge of viewer."""
-        size = self.geometry()
+        size = self.frameGeometry()
         self.move(0, 0)
-        w = size.width()
-        y = 0
-        #TODO: Layout isn't quite correct for multiple plugins (overlaps).
-        for p in self.plugins:
-            p.move(w, y)
-            y += p.geometry().height()
+        # w = size.width()
+        # h = size.height()
+        # x = 0
+        # y = h
+        # #TODO: Layout isn't quite correct for multiple plugins (overlaps).
+        # for p in self.plugins:
+            # p.move(x, y)
+            # y += p.frameGeometry().height()
 
     def _show(self):
         self.auto_layout()

viewer_examples/plugins/color_histogram.py

@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ from skimage import data
 
 image = data.load('color.png')
 viewer = ImageViewer(image)
-viewer += ColorHistogram()
+viewer += ColorHistogram(dock='right')
 viewer.show()