Creating Plugin using IDEs

[nmichel]

Hello,

Is it possible to configure Netbeans or other IDEs, such as bluejay, to be used in order to write ImageJ plugins, and if yes, how?
I have found some guides online but they seem a bit old and outdated...

Thanks,

Nicholas

[Michael Epping-2]

Hello Nicholas,

i use eclipse to write ImageJ plugins. There are some HowTo's at
http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=howto:plugins:the_imagej_eclipse_howto
"Method 1: Setting up Eclipse to create and debug plugins for ImageJ" is
well described and it works fine with Eclipse 4.2 SR1. Being able to use
all debug functions of eclipse is a great help. And a nice advantage of
eclipse is that you only have to unzip it, no installation is needed and
you can run it easily on an external HDD.

Michael


> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to configure Netbeans or other IDEs, such as bluejay, to be
> used in order to write ImageJ plugins, and if yes, how?
> I have found some guides online but they seem a bit old and outdated...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nicholas

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[Grant Harris]

Nicholas,
You might be interested to try the package I put together for this.
Download ImageJ-NetBeans.zip from https://github.com/tnargsirrah/ImageJ-NetBeans.
Create a directory and unzip ImageJ-NetBeans.zip into it.  Instructions in a .doc file therein.
This has not been tested much, and not at all on Mac/Linux, so let me know of any problems.
-- Grant Harris

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[nmichel]

Thank you all for your answers.

Just one more question, which might be silly. is it possible to  
combine Javascript and macro language in a macro?

Thanks again

Nicholas
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> Hello Nicholas,
>
> i use eclipse to write ImageJ plugins. There are some HowTo's at
> http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=howto:plugins:the_imagej_eclipse_howto
> "Method 1: Setting up Eclipse to create and debug plugins for ImageJ"
> is well described and it works fine with Eclipse 4.2 SR1. Being able to
> use all debug functions of eclipse is a great help. And a nice
> advantage of eclipse is that you only have to unzip it, no installation
> is needed and you can run it easily on an external HDD.
>
> Michael
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to configure Netbeans or other IDEs, such as bluejay, to be
>> used in order to write ImageJ plugins, and if yes, how?
>> I have found some guides online but they seem a bit old and outdated...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nicholas
>
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[dscho]

Hi Nicholas,

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, nmichel wrote:

> Is it possible to configure Netbeans or other IDEs, such as bluejay, to
> be used in order to write ImageJ plugins, and if yes, how?  I have found
> some guides online but they seem a bit old and outdated...

I played a little bit with BlueJ, and it is a nice tool to learn Java, but
it is a bit awkward to use for real projects (for example, you have to
restart once you specify where the library ij.jar lives before code
compiles cleanly against it, I did not find an easy way to add a
plugins.config or other resource files, and you can only work on one
project at a time).

So I would advise to use Eclipse, Netbeans, IntelliJ or jEdit.

To make it easier to stay on top of ImageJ's development and to add other
dependencies, the optimal choice is to make it a Maven project. Such a
project is simply a .xml file describing the project and its dependencies,
and a convention where the .java files should be put.

The advantage is that you can switch to another IDE whenever you like, and
you can also collaborate with other people who like another IDE better
than you do. You also avoid having instructions like "copy the ij.jar into
this place" or, worse, having to bundle an ij.jar with the source code.

To make things easy, I made a minimal Maven project to serve as a starting
point. I welcome you to change it to your heart's extent:

        https://github.com/imagej/minimal-ij1-plugin/zipball/master

Instructions how to import it into your favorite IDE are here:

        https://github.com/imagej/minimal-ij1-plugin/blob/master/README.md

The project also contains a convenience main() method so that you can
set breakpoints and start the plugin in the debugger without hassles. (In
Eclipse, after importing the project, select Navigation>Open Type...,
select Process_Pixels, then run Run>Debug As>Java Application.)

Ciao,
Johannes

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[dscho]

Hi Nicholas,

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Nikolaos Michelarakis wrote:

> Just one more question, which might be silly. is it possible to combine
> Javascript and macro language in a macro?

There is the eval("script", ...) function:

        http://imagej.net/developer/macro/functions.html#eval

Ciao,
Johannes

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