why not write a plug-in with a custom event listener?
e.g.
//////////
public class do_my_thing_ implements PlugIn, KeyListener {
//...setup_and_stuff
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
int keyCode = e.getKeyCode();
switch(keyCode) {
case(32)://do_my_spacebar_thing
// case(other_key_codes_that_you_might_want_to_trap)
// ...
default:break;
}
}
}
//////////
I've never done it, quite, like this -- overriding the main program's built in key-trapping directly; I have made it work by putting the KeyListener (and mouse listeners, &c.) into a customCanvass class, on more than one occasion (I wanted to draw a non-destructive overlay based on user input), but it *should* work.
I don't have a lot of experience with the macro interface; I do most of my work with ImageJ directly via java, like above -- so I'm not sure how macros and a plug-in like this would interface, but - I would expect - that you could run the plug-in first (to add your custom event handlers), and the macros after, with the event handlers becoming a persistent part of the image, as far as ImageJ was concerned.
There's a pretty good [complete, working] example of how to implement a KeyListener on the plugins page
(
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/key-listener.html )
that was thrown up there by Wayne Rasband, back in 2000.
-Gabriel DeBarr
-----Original Message-----
From: ImageJ Interest Group [mailto:
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Trotter Cashion
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:52 PM
To:
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Subject: Re: Space Bar as Macro Hotkey
Thanks Martin, but this isn't exactly what I'm looking for. I need to be
able to run other macros (using hotkeys) while waiting for the space bar to
be hit, and this solution would prohibit me from doing so. Thanks anyway
though.
- Trotter
On 3/8/06, Martin du Saire <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I've use this to wait until I hit the space bar. Is that what you wanted?
>
> while (isKeyDown("space") < 1) {
> }
>
> M
>
> At 02:39 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote:
> >Does anyone know of a way to use the space bar as a hot key for a macro.
> >For instance, I currently have it set so that hitting 'a' marks a
> location
> >on the image. Is there a way that I could achieve the same effect by
> >hitting 'space bar'? If there is not, does anyone know how I can go
> about
> >adding this as a feature request? Thank you.
> >
> >- Trotter Cashion
> >Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
> >
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>
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