Re: Trying to compile QT_Movie_Opener

Posted by dscho on Oct 24, 2011; 8:41pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Trying-to-compile-QT-Movie-Opener-tp3682769p3682772.html

Hi Philip,

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Philip Ershler wrote:

> On Oct 21, 2011, at 8:45 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Philip Ershler wrote:
> >
> >> I have picked up the source code for the QT_Movie_Opener plugin. I
> >> am trying to make some minor changes so that I can call this plugin
> >> from another plugin to implement a batch mode plugin. However, when
> >> I try to compile and run the original QT_Movie_Opener.java file from
> >> ImageJ, I get a bunch of DEPRECATED errors like these
> >>
> >> /Volumes/Lion 10.7/Applications/ImageJ/plugins/Batcher/QT_Movie_Opener.java:18: warning: [deprecation] quicktime.std.image.GraphicsImporter in quicktime.std.image has been deprecated
> >> import quicktime.std.image.GraphicsImporter;
> >>                          ^
> >
> > Those are not errors, but only warnings. It means that these classes
> > have been deprecated, my guess is because Quicktime4Java in general
> > has been a little bit neglected lately by Apple, and furthermore, they
> > want to discourage using Java.
> >
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> So the compiler throws all these warnings (and more) and the whole
> >> process stops.
> >
> > Now, the stopping of the process is an altogether different issue. Are
> > you sure that there are no output .class files in plugins/Batcher/?
>
> Thanks for the thought but here's what's in the directory.
>
> Administrators-MacBook-Pro:~ ershler$ cd /Volumes/Lion\ 10.7/Applications/ImageJ/plugins/Batcher
> Administrators-MacBook-Pro:Batcher ershler$ ls -la
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x   3 ershler  2000   102 Oct 21 19:51 .
> drwxr-xr-x@ 25 ershler  2000   850 Oct 21 19:44 ..
> -rw-r--r--@  1 ershler  2000  7639 Oct 21 19:51 QT_Movie_Opener.java
> Administrators-MacBook-Pro:Batcher ershler$

I suspect the .class files to lie somewhere else, then. Maybe directly in
plugins/?

In any case, you should be able to compile them on the command line when
cd'ing to the Batcher/ directory and calling

        javac -classpath /path/to/ij.jar QT_Movie_Opener.java

Ciao,
Johannes