Hi Alan,
your first suggestion would simply create a single key named
"captureTool.ifCapture[i]", with 'i' being the letter 'i' and the
square brackets also being characters in the key.
As far as I can say, String concatenation is the only way to do it,
so your macro calls are perfect!
Michael
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On 4 Mar 2010, at 16:32, Alan Hewat wrote:
> Is it possible to save an array of preferences ? eg can I do:
>
> for (i=0; i<nDevices; i++) call("ij.Prefs.set",
> "captureTool.ifCapture[i]
> ",ifCapture[i]);
>
> Apparently not in version 1.43q because what is saved (silently) in
> IJ_Prefs.txt is:
>
> .captureTool.ifCapture[i]\ =1
>
> What does work is:
>
> for (i=0; i<nDevices; i++) call("ij.Prefs.set",
> "captureTool.ifCapture"+i,ifCapture[i]);
>
> which is fine since I can retrieve the preference array with:
>
> for (i=0; i<nDevices; i++) ifCapture[i] =
> call("ij.Prefs.get","captureTool.ifCapture"+i,ifCapture[i]);
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