Using a variable in another macro

[Mikeo]

Hello everyone,

To start with, I'm new in the world of macros so excuse me if the question
is trivial !

In a first macro, I determined the center of an object with 2 variables X0,
Y0 and I want to re-use these two coordinates in a second macro, which will
be run separately.

I took a look at some discussions, espcially the following one :
http://imagej.1557.x6.nabble.com/User-input-for-a-global-variable-in-a-macro-td3694344.html
but it seems to be a little bit different from what I'm looking for.

How to do that?
Thanks !
Julien




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[Kenton Arkill]

Probably a better way but I output to results table to retrieve later or to
a text file.

Best

On Tue, 21 May 2019, 16:05 julien.jurczak, <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> To start with, I'm new in the world of macros so excuse me if the question
> is trivial !
>
> In a first macro, I determined the center of an object with 2 variables X0,
> Y0 and I want to re-use these two coordinates in a second macro, which will
> be run separately.
>
> I took a look at some discussions, espcially the following one :
>
> http://imagej.1557.x6.nabble.com/User-input-for-a-global-variable-in-a-macro-td3694344.html
> but it seems to be a little bit different from what I'm looking for.
>
> How to do that?
> Thanks !
> Julien
>
>
>
>
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[George Patterson]

Dear Julien,
Below is an example in which one macro passes variables to the second
macro.  This is assuming that you want the first macro to call the second.
The second macro needs to be located in the macros directory or include the
full file path to the macro.
See the "runMacro" documentation here.
https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/developer/macro/functions.html
The getArgument command in the second macro is the other command you need.
Most of the second macro in this example is simply parsing the passed
argument for the values converted to a string and passed from the first
macro.
Best,
George

macro "testMacro1"{
x0=1.5;
y0=2.7;
argToPass=toString(x0+"_"+y0);
runMacro("testMacro2",argToPass);
}

macro "testMacro2"{
passedArg=getArgument();
indexOfSeparator=indexOf(passedArg,"_");
x0=parseFloat(substring(passedArg,0,indexOfSeparator));
y0=parseFloat(substring(passedArg,indexOfSeparator+1));
print("x0="+x0);
print("y0="+y0);
sum=x0+y0;
print(sum);
}







On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:03 AM julien.jurczak <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> To start with, I'm new in the world of macros so excuse me if the question
> is trivial !
>
> In a first macro, I determined the center of an object with 2 variables X0,
> Y0 and I want to re-use these two coordinates in a second macro, which will
> be run separately.
>
> I took a look at some discussions, espcially the following one :
>
> http://imagej.1557.x6.nabble.com/User-input-for-a-global-variable-in-a-macro-td3694344.html
> but it seems to be a little bit different from what I'm looking for.
>
> How to do that?
> Thanks !
> Julien
>
>
>
>
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[Kenneth Sloan-2]

I'm not a macro hacker, but...isn't this a good application for an ROI?
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> On May 22, 2019, at 13:40, George Patterson <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Dear Julien,
> Below is an example in which one macro passes variables to the second
> macro.  This is assuming that you want the first macro to call the second.
> The second macro needs to be located in the macros directory or include the
> full file path to the macro.
> See the "runMacro" documentation here.
> https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/developer/macro/functions.html
> The getArgument command in the second macro is the other command you need.
> Most of the second macro in this example is simply parsing the passed
> argument for the values converted to a string and passed from the first
> macro.
> Best,
> George
>
> macro "testMacro1"{
> x0=1.5;
> y0=2.7;
> argToPass=toString(x0+"_"+y0);
> runMacro("testMacro2",argToPass);
> }
>
> macro "testMacro2"{
> passedArg=getArgument();
> indexOfSeparator=indexOf(passedArg,"_");
> x0=parseFloat(substring(passedArg,0,indexOfSeparator));
> y0=parseFloat(substring(passedArg,indexOfSeparator+1));
> print("x0="+x0);
> print("y0="+y0);
> sum=x0+y0;
> print(sum);
> }
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:03 AM julien.jurczak <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> To start with, I'm new in the world of macros so excuse me if the question
>> is trivial !
>>
>> In a first macro, I determined the center of an object with 2 variables X0,
>> Y0 and I want to re-use these two coordinates in a second macro, which will
>> be run separately.
>>
>> I took a look at some discussions, espcially the following one :
>>
>> http://imagej.1557.x6.nabble.com/User-input-for-a-global-variable-in-a-macro-td3694344.html
>> but it seems to be a little bit different from what I'm looking for.
>>
>> How to do that?
>> Thanks !
>> Julien
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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