Drag and drop opening of text Images

[Conner Phillips]

Greetings everyone,

I would find it useful to be able to drag and drop txt images to ImageJ and have them actually open as images by default, not text. I found the following "solution" of dropping it on the >> menu, but that only works about half the time, the other half it still opens it as a normal text file.

https://forum.image.sc/t/text-images-and-imagej-drag-and-drop/532

Thanks for your input.

-Conner

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[jmutterer]

Hi, you could do this with a very simple ActionBar drag-and-drop action:
See here for some documentation:
https://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/plugin/utilities/action_bar/start
Jerome.


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On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 10:24, Phillips, Conner <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Greetings everyone,
>
> I would find it useful to be able to drag and drop txt images to ImageJ
> and have them actually open as images by default, not text. I found the
> following "solution" of dropping it on the >> menu, but that only works
> about half the time, the other half it still opens it as a normal text file.
>
> https://forum.image.sc/t/text-images-and-imagej-drag-and-drop/532
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> -Conner
>
> --
> Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme IKTS
> Conner Phillips
> Charakterisierungsverfahren | Characterization Technologies
> Maria-Reiche-Straße 2, 01109 Dresden, Germany
> <https://s.fhg.de/ikts-klotzsche>Telefon [phone]
> Fax [phone]
> [hidden email]
> <mailto:[hidden email]>www.ikts.fraunhofer.de
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[Wayne Rasband-2]

> On Feb 15, 2021, at 4:22 AM, Phillips, Conner <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I would find it useful to be able to drag and drop txt images to ImageJ and have them actually open as images by default, not text. I found the following "solution" of dropping it on the >> menu, but that only works about half the time, the other half it still opens it as a normal text file.
>
> https://forum.image.sc/t/text-images-and-imagej-drag-and-drop/532

Hi Conner,

Opening text images by dropping them on the >> menu always works for me. Do the names of the text images end in “.txt”? Do you wait until you see “<<Open as Virtual Stack>>” before releasing the mouse button?

-wayne
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[Conner Phillips]

Hello Jerome and Wayne,

Jerome, I will look into your link. Thank you.

Wayne, that change in the status bar depends on where in the icon the mouse is. It seems to be mostly restricted near the point of the low leg of the right arrow. Otherwise it reverts back to just <<Drag and Drop>>. Yea I can just wiggle the mouse around to find it, but I would definitely qualify it as a bug. I am running ImageJ1.53i9 with Java 1.8.0_172 64bit on Windows 10 if that information is useful.

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[Wayne Rasband-2]

> On Feb 18, 2021, at 7:39 AM, Conner Phillips <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hello Jerome and Wayne,
>
> Jerome, I will look into your link. Thank you.
>
> Wayne, that change in the status bar depends on where in the icon the mouse is. It seems to be mostly restricted near the point of the low leg of the right arrow. Otherwise it reverts back to just <<Drag and Drop>>. Yea I can just wiggle the mouse around to find it, but I would definitely qualify it as a bug. I am running ImageJ1.53i9 with Java 1.8.0_172 64bit on Windows 10 if that information is useful.

With the latest daily build (1.53i14), the drop target around the >> menu is larger and the status bar message is now "<<Open as virtual stack or text image>>”.

-wayne

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[Conner Phillips]

Hi Wayne, it works much better now. Thank you!

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