Hi,
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Rodrigo Marino wrote:
>
> > Is there any macro/plugin that automatically opens a new file in a
> > folder? For instance, when scanning pictures, as the scanner software
> > creates a file in a folder I want Imagej to open it automatically.
>
> That'll require some macro programming. You probably need the
> getFileList() function to get the list of the files in the directory, the
> Arrays.sort() function and a function to search in a sorted list to
> prevent already-opened files from opening again, and the wait() function
> to wait between polling the directory.
Actually, due to some peculiarities it was not all that easy, but here is
what I wrote and which works here:
-- snipsnap --
directory = getDirectory("Select the directory");
// get the initial list (without opening the files)
list = getFileList(directory);
Array.sort(list);
for (;;) {
previousList = list;
list = getFileList(directory);
if (previousList.length != list.length) {
Array.sort(list);
// walk both lists
j = 0;
for (i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
stopJ = previousList.length;
while (j < stopJ)
if (previousList[j] < list[i])
j++;
else
stopJ = j;
if (j >= previousList.length)
open(directory + list[i]);
else if (list[i] != previousList[j])
open(directory + list[i]);
}
}
wait(1); // wait a second
}
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