Relative paths in ImageJ.cfg (Windows)?

[Burger Wilhelm]

Hello all,

for technical reasons I would like to permanently move ij.jar to the ImageJ/jars subfolder, with the original (automatically created) config file
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C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_45\bin\javaw.exe
-Xmx640m -cp ij.jar ij.ImageJ
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I tried settings like
   -cp jars\ij.jar ij.ImageJ
   -cp .\jars\ij.jar ij.ImageJ
but the Image.exe launcher still asks me to locate ij.jar manually. Then it inserts a full absolute path to ij.jar into the config file, which I would like to avoid.

Is there any way to specify (and keep) a relative path to ij.jar?

--Wilhelm
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[Burger Wilhelm]

Thanks, Wayne for looking into this!

Meanwhile I have been trying to reach George Silva to ask for the Pascal code of the legacy ImageJ launcher, however unsuccessful. Does anyone know how to contact George?

--Wilhelm

> ________________________________________
> From: Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] [[hidden email]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 05:11
> To: Burger Wilhelm
> Subject: Re: Relative paths in ImageJ.cfg (Windows)?
>
> Dear Wilhelm,
>
> You can use a relative path to ij.jar when it is in the ImageJ directory but not
> when it is in the Image/jars directory. There are two ImageJ launchers and
> both fail when ij.jar is in ImageJ/jars. The launcher included with the
> Windows version of ImageJ not bundled with Java is the one written by
> George Silva in Turbo Pascal. This is the launcher that you appear to be using.
> The other launcher, the ImageJ2/Fiji launcher, is the one included with the
> Windows versions of ImageJ that are bundled with Java. I tested both
> launchers and they both stopped working when I changed "-cp ij.jar" to "-cp
> jars/ij.jar" in ImageJ.cfg and moved ij.jar into ImageJ/jars.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -wayne

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