Making "hotkeys"

[Rebecca Keller]

Dear List,

I have not been able to discover how to assign keys to items in the
pull-downs. For example, I am always using image->stacks->plot z-axis
profile, and would love not to have to go through the pull-downs to get
there. Is there a simple way to do this, or perhaps to put a button on the
menu bar?

Thanks,

JPK

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[ctrueden]

Hi JPK,

> I have not been able to discover how to assign keys to items in the
> pull-downs.

Plugins > Shortcuts > Create Shortcut...

Or you can press L for the Command Finder (to "Launch" them), which is a
very fast way of executing commands.

Regards,
Curtis


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Rebecca Keller <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I have not been able to discover how to assign keys to items in the
> pull-downs. For example, I am always using image->stacks->plot z-axis
> profile, and would love not to have to go through the pull-downs to get
> there. Is there a simple way to do this, or perhaps to put a button on the
> menu bar?
>
> Thanks,
>
> JPK
>
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> ImageJ mailing list: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/list.html
>

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[Rebecca Keller]

Curtis, thank you so much for this simple advice! You've saved me (and
whomever else "hears" this) a ton of time and aggravation!

Nice to know also about "L"!

All the best,

JPK


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Curtis Rueden <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi JPK,
>
> > I have not been able to discover how to assign keys to items in the
> > pull-downs.
>
> Plugins > Shortcuts > Create Shortcut...
>
> Or you can press L for the Command Finder (to "Launch" them), which is a
> very fast way of executing commands.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Rebecca Keller <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I have not been able to discover how to assign keys to items in the
> > pull-downs. For example, I am always using image->stacks->plot z-axis
> > profile, and would love not to have to go through the pull-downs to get
> > there. Is there a simple way to do this, or perhaps to put a button on
> the
> > menu bar?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > JPK
> >
> > --
> > ImageJ mailing list: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/list.html
> >
>
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[Michael Schmid]

Hi Rebecca,

one more possibility for shortcuts:

Add a macro to your StartupMacros file in ImageJ/macros:
  macro 'Plot Z axis Profile [F1]' {
    run("Plot Z-axis Profile");
  }
See
  http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/developer/macro/macros.html#shortcuts

Furthermore, there is the Action Bar plugin by Jerome Mutterer, also very handy for commands that you need very often:
  http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=plugin:utilities:action_bar:start

Michael
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On Jul 29, 2014, at 18:51, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> Hi JPK,
>
>> I have not been able to discover how to assign keys to items in the
>> pull-downs.
>
> Plugins > Shortcuts > Create Shortcut...
>
> Or you can press L for the Command Finder (to "Launch" them), which is a
> very fast way of executing commands.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Rebecca Keller <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I have not been able to discover how to assign keys to items in the
>> pull-downs. For example, I am always using image->stacks->plot z-axis
>> profile, and would love not to have to go through the pull-downs to get
>> there. Is there a simple way to do this, or perhaps to put a button on the
>> menu bar?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> JPK
>>
>> --
>> ImageJ mailing list: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/list.html
>>
>
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[dscho]

Hi Rebecca,

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Rebecca Keller wrote:

> Curtis, thank you so much for this simple advice! You've saved me (and
> whomever else "hears" this) a ton of time and aggravation!
>
> Nice to know also about "L"!

Yes, the command launcher is a fantastic feature. I cannot thank Mark
Longair enough for championing its first incarnation, back when Fiji was
just starting to take off (the Command Launcher -- it was intended for
launching commands, hence the L key -- was introduced into Fiji first and
when it became obvious that it was stable and useful outside of life
sciences, it migrated into ImageJ proper).

Ciao,
Johannes

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