Login  Register

Re: Why are images automatically renamed?

Posted by David Gene Morgan on Oct 07, 2010; 3:56pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Why-are-images-automatically-renamed-tp3686678p3686691.html

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Norbert,

        maybe I'm wrong, but I have always assumed that imageJ does this since
you might want to (for example) manipulate the same image in different
ways and compare the results before saving the output.  If it were
impossible to open the same image twice, this would be harder...

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


- --
                 David Gene Morgan
                  cryoEM Facility
                  320C Simon Hall
           Indiana University Bloomington
               812 856 1457 (office)
               812 856 3221 (EM lab)
            http://bio.indiana.edu/~cryo
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFMre2hZP9hCYoz1a0RAunhAJwMCDH1Osb9uvFvvEL3/E0cifJIxQCeKG4B
xAcyCNlFqLdoC3PBf7R32f0=
=0biq
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----