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Re: ANN: Groovy Console plugin available

Posted by dscho on Mar 07, 2011; 11:13am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ANN-Groovy-Console-plugin-available-tp3685472p3685475.html

Hi,

On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Jarek Sacha wrote:

> Curtis:
> > Any interest in incorporating the Groovy support into Fiji?
>
> I will be glad to see it there, though I do not use Script Editor that
> much.
>
> I would like to be able to run Groove and Scala scripts in ImageJ.
> Groovy was a low hanging fruit, since the Console is part of Groovy, and
> could be easily run from a plugin. The basic need for Groovy is now
> satisfied.

Actually, I think it would be better to have Groovy supported in the
standardized way the scripting framework provides (because that makes for
less surprises with users who are used to a certain set of supported
features).

> Integrating Scala scripting is a bit more complex, there are some issues
> with class loader.

I started with Scala some time ago, because there was an interested
person, but since I did only the first step the project was never
completed. Would be easy, though (read: less than a day of work).

> I have working prototype of a plugins for script executor and command
> line interpreter. The plan is to have a simple solution for plain
> ImageJ. Integration into the Fuji's Script Editor may be a later
> consideration.

Heh. That name ("Fuji") is taken by a big company already.

Ciao,
Johannes