Re: Why are images automatically renamed?

Posted by Gabriel Landini on Oct 07, 2010; 4:49pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Why-are-images-automatically-renamed-tp3686678p3686681.html

On Thursday 07 October 2010  17:39:24 you wrote:
> On 7. Oct. 2010, at 16:34 , Gabriel Landini wrote:
> > I think that here IJ confuses chopping part of the name off because there
> > is a "-"+number+"." in the title. So IJ thinks that this is the counter
> > of the replicated image.
>
> But the image is already open (the user may have forgotten this as it is
> hidden behind other windows) - why is it opened a second time as copy?

Sorry I misunderstood your previous mail.

> Simply bringing it to the front wouldn't require to invent new names..

Yes, but those are 2 different actions: "choose from the open images" ->select
from the Window menu entry, versus "open an image from disk" -> File menu
entry.
I think it is useful to be able to open the same image more than once
(although I sometimes forget I have some windows minimised, too) :-)

If the hidden window was brought to the front when you try to open, then it
would not be an Open command, but a SelectWindow one. That would also be
confusing when the original was processed and hidden.

Not sure if there is a better solution to this.

Regards

Gabriel