qTLC library gets GUI, at least :-)

It has been a while since I have published the qtlc library. Early in 2016 was more than a year of testing and bug fixing work and then I decided to share the code with R community via official CRAN repository. (Also, at that moment I was searching the right journal to publish my paper for which the library was designed as a tool to save my nerves.) Well, since then, not much of improvements I did about it, except a few ideas and many encouraging e-mails exchanged with fellows interested in the topic.

As the only developer of the qtlc library, and with limited time I could spent in real coding, I had to list the priorities. Well, it wasn't a hard job to do, almost every contact has at least one issue - make a GUI for us.

This weekend I have spent in coding. (Here in Belgrade is real wintertime outside with temperatures in deep freeze minus for more than a month, so here is good times for endless hacking.) This very early version of the GUI is entirely written in the R utilizing RGtk2 library. It's a simple (source of about 300 lines), but usable tool to ease the common qtlc library functions to load TIFF image, mark spots, and possibly remove noise for further quantification. I'll attach several images to show how it looks like in these very early stage. (Labels are in Serbian, my native language and also a convenient way to test Unicode support of the interface.) For a month, or so, there is a plan to publish it as an minor version improvement in the CRAN, or maybe as a standalone GTK extension of the library.

I would like to hear some feed back, maybe as a "cool, keep updating" ;) Cheers!