stack-to-hyperstack

[Tony Shepherd]

I have a plugin that produces a stack to display 4D data, but the user must finally use the menu options "Image -> Stack -> Stack to Hyperstack" to turn the resultsing stack into a HypetStack. To do this automatically for the user, what commands can I use in the plugin code (something like "imp.createHyperstackFromStack(args)" or stack.sortIntoHyperstack(args)..) since there is no constructor for a HypetStack object?
 
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[Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E]]

On Feb 14, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Tony Shepherd wrote:

> I have a plugin that produces a stack to display 4D data, but the user must finally use the menu options "Image -> Stack -> Stack to Hyperstack" to turn the resultsing stack into a HypetStack. To do this automatically for the user, what commands can I use in the plugin code (something like "imp.createHyperstackFromStack(args)" or stack.sortIntoHyperstack(args)..) since there is no constructor for a HypetStack object?

Use the ImagePlus methods setDimensions() and setOpenAsHyperStack(true) to display a stack contained in an ImagePlus as a hyperstack. Convert the ImagePlus to a CompositeImage if the stack has more than one channel. Here is an example:

  width = 256;
  height = 256;
  channels = 3;
  slices = 10;
  frames = 20;
  images = channels*slices*frames;
  imp = IJ.createImage("Test", "8-bit black", width, height, images);
  imp.setDimensions(channels, slices, frames);
  if (channels>1)
     imp = new CompositeImage(imp, CompositeImage.COMPOSITE);
  imp.setOpenAsHyperStack(true);
  imp.show();

-wayne