how to specify the screen position of a GenericDialog from a macro?

[Bill Christens-Barry]

I'd like to be able to specify the screen position of a GenericDialog from a macro. To do this I've tried the GenericDialog.setLocation() and Macro.getOptions() methods in a plugin run by the macro. This has been only partly successful, and I am confused by a problem I've had.

If I execute macro code containing the command:

    run("MyPlugin", "100, 400");

the passed String argument ("100, 400") can be parsed and used by MyPlugin, but no GenericDialog is displayed. If I remove the argument in this macro command and remove Macro.getOptions() from MyPlugin and try:

    run("MyPlugin");

the GenericDialog is displayed if the location arguments needed by the GenericDialog.setLocation() method are hard-coded in the MyPlugin.

Is there inherent interaction between arguments passed by a macro via "run" and GenericDialogs? Are arguments passed using "run" used in some particular way to prepopulate fields of a GenericDialog?

I'm using ImageJ 1.50b, Java 6, and MacOS 10.9.5. I can post code if that would be helpful.

Thanks.

Bill Christens-Barry

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[Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E]]

On Sep 9, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Bill Christens-Barry <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I'd like to be able to specify the screen position of a GenericDialog from a macro.

Use the Dialog.setLocation(x,y) macro function. Here is an example:

 x=10;
 y=200;
 Dialog.create("Dialog");
 Dialog.addMessage("This dialog is displayed at ("+x+","+y+").");
 Dialog.setLocation(x,y);
 Dialog.show();

I added this function in ImageJ 1.49o but forgot to document it.

-wayne

> To do this I've tried the GenericDialog.setLocation() and Macro.getOptions() methods in a plugin run by the macro. This has been only partly successful, and I am confused by a problem I've had.
>
> If I execute macro code containing the command:
>
>    run("MyPlugin", "100, 400");
>
> the passed String argument ("100, 400") can be parsed and used by MyPlugin, but no GenericDialog is displayed. If I remove the argument in this macro command and remove Macro.getOptions() from MyPlugin and try:
>
>    run("MyPlugin");
>
> the GenericDialog is displayed if the location arguments needed by the GenericDialog.setLocation() method are hard-coded in the MyPlugin.
>
> Is there inherent interaction between arguments passed by a macro via "run" and GenericDialogs? Are arguments passed using "run" used in some particular way to prepopulate fields of a GenericDialog?
>
> I'm using ImageJ 1.50b, Java 6, and MacOS 10.9.5. I can post code if that would be helpful.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill Christens-Barry
>
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> ImageJ mailing list: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/list.html

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