Howdy, and Plugin Problem

[Andy Puckett]

I'm brand new to this, and appreciate any help you may be able to  
provide.  I've got this plugin called "Nova Plugin" which was written  
to find novae in images of galaxies.  Someone was hired to write this  
plugin, probably a few years ago, but I don't have access to that  
person anymore.  The plugin works in ImageJ 1.37v and earlier, but  
not 1.38x or 1.39e.  When I attempt to run the plugin, I get the  
following error message:
        Plugin or class not found:  "Nova_Plugin_"
        (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ij/plugin/FITS)
Does anyone have any idea what's going on?  I know very little about  
Java, but am willing to learn.  (Actually, I wrote some Java on the  
web a few years ago, so maybe it's in there somewhere.)  Let me know  
what other information you might need to know.

Thanks,
Andy

[dscho]

Hi,

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Andy Puckett wrote:

> I'm brand new to this, and appreciate any help you may be able to
> provide. I've got this plugin called "Nova Plugin" which was written to
> find novae in images of galaxies.

Just for my curiousity: is it possible to get the source code of that
plugin?

> Plugin or class not found:  "Nova_Plugin_"
> (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ij/plugin/FITS)

It says that it needs a class named FITS, which was split into FITS_Reader
and FITS_Writer in version 1.38f.

It's probably not possible to fix this without getting at the source code.

If the plugin is open source, I can fix it for you.

Ciao,
Dscho