Easy way to open files.

[naoki irie]

I'm handling 200 image files to make stack.
Is there any way that I can open multiple files in the order of I want?

When I select multiple files and drag on to the ImageJ
application icon, the files do open, but the order is not the
way I've chosen, which leads to the stack that contains unwanted order
of image files.

Naoki Irie

[Michael Schmid]

Hi,

why not use File>Import>Image Sequence ?

See http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/docs/menus/file.html#import

You can have the files sorted either numerically or
alphanumerically .
numerical sorting: e.g. file1, file2, ... file9, file10, file11
alphanumerical: file1, file10, file11, file2, ... file9

As written in the documentation page mentioned above, another
way is the OpenSeriesUsingFilter macro
   http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/macros/OpenSeriesUsingFilter.txt

To obtain an arbitrary sequence, you can modify this macro by
manipulating the list before entering the loop. Alternatively,
you could also modify the macro to read a list of files that
comes from somewhere else.

Michael
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On 22 Oct 2007, at 13:16, Naoki Irie wrote:

> I'm handling 200 image files to make stack.
> Is there any way that I can open multiple files in the order of I  
> want?
>
> When I select multiple files and drag on to the ImageJ
> application icon, the files do open, but the order is not the
> way I've chosen, which leads to the stack that contains unwanted order
> of image files.
>
> Naoki Irie

[ctrueden]

Hi Naoki,

In addition to Michael's suggestions, you could try the Bio-Formats
plugin (http://www.loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats.html) with the "Group
files with similar names" option checked. Bio-Formats detects
numberings across files in the same folder and guesses the dimensional
axes to which they correspond.

-Curtis

On 10/22/07, Naoki Irie <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm handling 200 image files to make stack.
> Is there any way that I can open multiple files in the order of I want?
>
> When I select multiple files and drag on to the ImageJ
> application icon, the files do open, but the order is not the
> way I've chosen, which leads to the stack that contains unwanted order
> of image files.
>
> Naoki Irie
>