retain slice labels when creating hyperstacks

[lechristophe]

Dear ImageJ specialists,

I started to use the Hyperstack functions and so far, so good. There is only
one thing that keeps me from using them more : when you convert a Stack that
has labels for each slice (such as the file name after an "Import>Image
Sequence..." command) to an Hyperstack using the "Stack to Hyperstack"
command, you loose all labels. This is annoying because I use Stacks a lot
to batch process images, and I loose the connection to the original images
if I loose the labels, so I can't batch save the modified images with their
original names. Is it possible to have slice labels in Hyperstacks ?

Christophe

[Wayne Rasband]

> I started to use the Hyperstack functions and so far, so good. There
> is only
> one thing that keeps me from using them more : when you convert a
> Stack that
> has labels for each slice (such as the file name after an "Import>Image
> Sequence..." command) to an Hyperstack using the "Stack to Hyperstack"
> command, you loose all labels. This is annoying because I use Stacks a
> lot
> to batch process images, and I loose the connection to the original
> images
> if I loose the labels, so I can't batch save the modified images with
> their
> original names. Is it possible to have slice labels in Hyperstacks ?

This bug is fixed in ImageJ 1.39u. You can upgrade by using the
Plugins>Utilities>Update ImageJ command or by using the ImageJ Updater
plugin (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/imagej-updater.html).

-wayne

[lechristophe]

Nice ! I was using 1.39t. On a related note, is it possible to implement an
automatic upgrade at ImageJ start, or at least have ImageJ check and report
if a new version is available ? Another request : a RSS feed for the ImageJ
news webpage would be great to track new versions and plugin.


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Wayne Rasband <[hidden email]> wrote:

> > I started to use the Hyperstack functions and so far, so good. There
> > is only
> > one thing that keeps me from using them more : when you convert a
> > Stack that
> > has labels for each slice (such as the file name after an "Import>Image
> > Sequence..." command) to an Hyperstack using the "Stack to Hyperstack"
> > command, you loose all labels. This is annoying because I use Stacks a
> > lot
> > to batch process images, and I loose the connection to the original
> > images
> > if I loose the labels, so I can't batch save the modified images with
> > their
> > original names. Is it possible to have slice labels in Hyperstacks ?
>
> This bug is fixed in ImageJ 1.39u. You can upgrade by using the
> Plugins>Utilities>Update ImageJ command or by using the ImageJ Updater
> plugin (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/imagej-updater.html).
>
> -wayne
>

[Joachim Wesner]

Hi,

> Nice ! I was using 1.39t. On a related note, is it possible to implement
an
> automatic upgrade at ImageJ start, or at least have ImageJ check and
report
> if a new version is available ?

It should be pretty easy to change the updater so that when it is called
with a special argument,
it would terminate silently when you are already running the newest
version. One could now
put that into the "autoexec" macro of ImageJ and it would automatically
check for a new version
after any start. (Another special argument would not even ask for it but
ALWAYS do the update!
Just an idea)

I could add that change, but I think the original contributor should better
do it!?

Joachim


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[Dimiter Prodanov-2]

I have written a plugin to read RSS feeds in ImageJ and to open any
images. So if Wayne wants to to set up RSS news I can post the code.

Regards,

Dimiter Prodanov