macro to plugin

[quantumlottie]

Hello

I was wondering if there is any way to send information collected from
the user in a macro to a plugin which can then use the data.

My macro collects data to find an image. I then run a plugin to analyse
the image but will need to user to input the same data again. So ideally
I could get the plugin to retrieve the data so the user only needs to
input it once.

Lottie


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[Wayne Rasband]

> I was wondering if there is any way to send information
> collected from the user in a macro to a plugin which can
> then use the data.
>
> My macro collects data to find an image. I then run a plugin
> to analyse the image but will need to user to input the same
> data again. So ideally I could get the plugin to retrieve
> the data so the user only needs to input it once.

Add a GenericDialog to the plugin that inputs the needed data, then run
the plugin with the command recorder to generate the code needed to
call the plugin from a macro. The macro at

      http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/macros/ArgumentPassingDemo.txt

demonstrates how to use string concatenation to pass arguments to
plugins that use a GenericDialog.

-wayne