Can't make patient anonymous without loading first

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.if there is an error in file loading, the anonymous option is not available, 
which makes handing the file off for further testing of solutions a problem 
with respect to Privacy Legislation.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Can the Anonymous option be made to work on a file without loading all the 
image data first?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
not relevant as this is about design not code

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alexisan...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2011 at 8:44

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Since dicompyler is plugin-based, it's hard to get the plugin to load without 
data being present. All plugins (including anonymization rely on the fact that 
the data it has requested (i.e. images, dose, etc) are present.

That said, an error handling dialog should be implemented that would tell the 
user that a file could not be read. Instead, what happens now is that the error 
gets logged to the console (or to the log file in the binary version).

This dialog could have a button to send a report and also generate anonymized 
data for uploading for further analysis. That way, it wouldn't break existing 
the plugin design paradigm, but also allow users to create anonymized data when 
an error occurs.

Original comment by bastula on 23 Feb 2011 at 9:03

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