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Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] on
Sep 13, 2010; 6:08pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Detecting-animated-state-in-a-macro-tp3686936p3686940.html
On Sep 12, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Bill Mohler wrote:
> Jerome, Ved, & Wayne
>
> Thanks for your advice. I guess I'll have to experiment to find out how
> much lag there might be in the disk-access required (I think) for the
> prefs approach, versus the need to wait for a frame change in the
> getSliceNumber approach. I'm trying to set up a very quick response in
> the UI to a keystroke, but need to know whether the stack is currently
> animated before choosing which actions to perform. It would be best, I
> think, if a macro command could directly return the current value of
> StackWindow.getAnimate(). Obviously this means work for Wayne, but I
> think it would be useful.
The is("animated") macro function, added in the 1.44g daily build, can be used to detect if a stack is currently animated.
-wayne
> On 9/12/10 3:35 p.m., Jerome Mutterer wrote:
>> Bill, Ved,
>>
>> The following macro retrieves the animation state of the current stack using
>> a javascript call. The state is returned using the built-in preferences
>> mechanism, because the eval() macro function cannot return a value.
>>
>> s="Prefs.set('is.animated',WindowManager."+
>> "getCurrentImage().getWindow()."+
>> "getAnimate());";
>> eval("script",s)
>> a = call ('ij.Prefs.get','is.animated',false);
>> print ("animated: "+a);
>>
>>
>> Jerome
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Ved Sharma<
[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bill,
>>>
>>> You can try the following code. You might have to adjust the wait time,
>>> depending on the your stack size and speed.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> a = getSliceNumber();
>>> wait(1000);
>>> b = getSliceNumber();
>>>
>>> if(a!=b)
>>> print("Stack is animated.");
>>> else
>>> print("Stack is not animated.");
>>> -------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Ved
>>>