ImageJ reinstallation confusion!

[Joanne Whitehead]

Hi, I hope someone out there will recognize this silly problem I am having,
and know the solution!

I have a new computer (WinXP), so downloaded ImageJ from the website and
copied all my macros over from my old computer (also WinXP) that I had added
previously. But now the dialog boxes look different and are harder to
navigate through: no scroll for the mouse, and when I select multiple files
with CTRL, it returns to the top of the list after each selection and I have
to again scroll down to add the next file.

This is annoying, but I could live with it, if any of my macros or plugins
actually worked! When selecting files for the 'batch RGB merge' plugin, for
example, all my folders appear empty, even though they are full of tif
files. And I can install a macro, but when I try run it, it tells me the
macro file can't be found. Aahh! I can run the batch convert to make 8-bit
tifs from 12-bit, but I can't make overlays, or change to a defined LUT with
the macro that worked fine on the other computer.

What has happened?
Any suggestions are gratefully appreciated!
Many thanks,
Joanne

[Wayne Rasband]

What version of ImageJ were you using and what version did you upgrade
to? Are you using JFileChooser (Edit>Options>Input/Output) to open
files? Are you using Java 1.5? JFileChooser works a lot better in Java
1.5. Note that you can also open multiple files by dragging and
dropping them on the "ImageJ" window or on the ImageJ icon.

-wayne

On Jun 12, 2006, at 6:04 AM, Joanne Whitehead wrote:

> Hi, I hope someone out there will recognize this silly problem I
> am having, and know the solution!
>
> I have a new computer (WinXP), so downloaded ImageJ from the
> website and copied all my macros over from my old computer
> (also WinXP) that I had added previously. But now the dialog
> boxes look different and are harder to navigate through: no
> scroll for the mouse, and when I select multiple files with
> CTRL, it returns to the top of the list after each selection
> and I have to again scroll down to add the next file.
>
> This is annoying, but I could live with it, if any of my
> macros or plugins actually worked! When selecting files for
> the 'batch RGB merge' plugin, for example, all my folders
> appear empty, even though they are full of tif files. And I
> can install a macro, but when I try run it, it tells me the
> macro file can't be found. Aahh! I can run the batch convert
> to make 8-bit tifs from 12-bit, but I can't make overlays,
> or change to a defined LUT with the macro that worked fine
> on the other computer.

>
> What has happened?
> Any suggestions are gratefully appreciated!
> Many thanks,
> Joanne
>

[Joanne Whitehead]

Hi, yes I have Jfilechooser activated. I have just checked the versions:
old computer: 1.37h, java 1.5.0_06
new computer: 1.36b, java 1.3.1_13

I installed from the website last week - I wonder why this is an older
version? I have already taken java updates, but this gave me Java Runtime
Environment Version 5.0 Update 7 - maybe this is not what I needed.

Sorry for elementary questions, and thanks for your help!
Joanne

[Wayne Rasband]

The ImageJ 1.36b package for Windows is available in three versions:

   1. Bundled with Java 1.3.1_13 (6 MB)
   2. Bundled with Java 1.5.0_06 (20 MB)
   3. Without Java (1.6 MB)

You can update to the latest prerelease version (1.37h) by downloading
the ij.jar file from <http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/notes.html> into the
ImageJ folder. The 1.6 MB package uses the latest version of Java
installed on you system. For Plugins>Compile and Run to work, this must
be the Java Development Kit (JDK), not the Java Runtime Environment
(JRE). The easiest way to "install" ImageJ on a new computer is to copy
the ImageJ folder from the old computer to the new one, but this  
requires that you have a jre (Java runtime) folder inside the ImageJ
folder.

On Jun 12, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Joanne Whitehead wrote:

> Hi, yes I have Jfilechooser activated. I have just checked the
> versions:
> old computer: 1.37h, java 1.5.0_06
> new computer: 1.36b, java 1.3.1_13
>
> I installed from the website last week - I wonder why this is an older
> version? I have already taken java updates, but this gave me Java
> Runtime Environment Version 5.0 Update 7 - maybe this is not what I
> needed.
>
> Sorry for elementary questions, and thanks for your help!
> Joanne
>

[Joanne Whitehead]

Okay, I'm making progress. The bundled version with java brought my
usual open file dialog boxes back. I still can't seem to make overlays
with batch_rgb_merge - I get a 'file incorrect format or not found'
error. But I will try again tomorrow, it's getting late.
Thanks!
Joanne


Wayne Rasband wrote:

> The ImageJ 1.36b package for Windows is available in three versions:
>
>   1. Bundled with Java 1.3.1_13 (6 MB)
>   2. Bundled with Java 1.5.0_06 (20 MB)
>   3. Without Java (1.6 MB)
>
> You can update to the latest prerelease version (1.37h) by downloading
> the ij.jar file from <http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/notes.html> into the
> ImageJ folder. The 1.6 MB package uses the latest version of Java
> installed on you system. For Plugins>Compile and Run to work, this
> must be the Java Development Kit (JDK), not the Java Runtime
> Environment (JRE). The easiest way to "install" ImageJ on a new
> computer is to copy the ImageJ folder from the old computer to the new
> one, but this  requires that you have a jre (Java runtime) folder
> inside the ImageJ folder.
>
> On Jun 12, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Joanne Whitehead wrote:
>
>> Hi, yes I have Jfilechooser activated. I have just checked the versions:
>> old computer: 1.37h, java 1.5.0_06
>> new computer: 1.36b, java 1.3.1_13
>>
>> I installed from the website last week - I wonder why this is an older
>> version? I have already taken java updates, but this gave me Java
>> Runtime Environment Version 5.0 Update 7 - maybe this is not what I
>> needed.
>>
>> Sorry for elementary questions, and thanks for your help!
>> Joanne
>>
>
>
> .
>

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