Use RecentOpener in Shortcut

[CARL Philippe (LBP)]

Dear all,

I would like to create Shortcuts (let's say F1 and F2) in order to open the
first and second file that can be found in the File/Open Recent submenu.

I figured out that I should create a plugin calling the RecentOpener class
for this but have no clue on how to do it.

So I thank you very much in advance for a little help.

Best regards,

Philippe


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[Michael Schmid]

Hi Philippe,


Well, I have not tried, but it might work like the following:

First you need the path+name of the recent file:
  String recentFile=openRecentMenu.getItem(i).getLabel();
where 'i' is 0 for the most recent and 1 for the file before.

Then, if that file is not a blank String, you can use
  new RecentOpener(recentFile);

Note that opening recentFile number 1 this way will put it on top of the 'recent' list, so it will become recentFile 0. If you want to leave the 'Open Recent' menu untouched, use
  IJ.open(recentFile); or
  ImagePlus imp = IJ.openImage(recentFile);

Michael
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On Dec 13, 2012, at 15:52, Philippe CARL wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to create Shortcuts (let's say F1 and F2) in order to open the
> first and second file that can be found in the File/Open Recent submenu.
>
> I figured out that I should create a plugin calling the RecentOpener class
> for this but have no clue on how to do it.
>
> So I thank you very much in advance for a little help.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Philippe

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[Michael Schmid]

Hi Philippe,

oops, sorry, it should have been
  String recentFile=Menus.openRecentMenu.getItem(i).getLabel();

But I just noted that Menus.openRecentMenu is not public, thus not accessible from plugins.

So my idea does not work unless Wayne would add a public method
   Menus.getOpenRecentMenu()
(preferred, it would also allow plugins to manipulate the 'Open Recent' menu) or
   Menus.getOpenRecentMenuItem(int i)

Michael
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On Dec 17, 2012, at 17:40, Michael Schmid wrote:

> Hi Philippe,
>
>
> Well, I have not tried, but it might work like the following:
>
> First you need the path+name of the recent file:
>  String recentFile=openRecentMenu.getItem(i).getLabel();
> where 'i' is 0 for the most recent and 1 for the file before.
>
> Then, if that file is not a blank String, you can use
>  new RecentOpener(recentFile);
>
> Note that opening recentFile number 1 this way will put it on top of the 'recent' list, so it will become recentFile 0. If you want to leave the 'Open Recent' menu untouched, use
>  IJ.open(recentFile); or
>  ImagePlus imp = IJ.openImage(recentFile);
>
> Michael
> ________________________________________________________________
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2012, at 15:52, Philippe CARL wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to create Shortcuts (let's say F1 and F2) in order to open the
>> first and second file that can be found in the File/Open Recent submenu.
>>
>> I figured out that I should create a plugin calling the RecentOpener class
>> for this but have no clue on how to do it.
>>
>> So I thank you very much in advance for a little help.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Philippe
>

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