Re: Image5D and ij1.43p

Posted by Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] on Feb 12, 2010; 4:06pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Image5D-and-ij1-43p-tp3689417p3689419.html

On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:38 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Mario Faretta wrote:
>
>> I am experiencing a strange behavior with the Image5D plugin and the current
>> version of ImageJ (1.43p, Windows XP 64-bit java 1.6.0_12).
>> When I try to convert a stack to a 5D stack an exception occurs:
>> java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: sliceSelector
>> at i5d.gui.Image5DWindow.<init>(Image5DWindow.java:57)
>> at i5d.gui.Image5DWindow.<init>(Image5DWindow.java:37)
>> at Stack_to_Image5D.run(Stack_to_Image5D.java:148)
>> at ij.IJ.runUserPlugIn(IJ.java:180)
>> at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:147)
>> at ij.Executer.runCommand(Executer.java:124)
>> at ij.Executer.run(Executer.java:61)
>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
>> I am not a programmer but I have the feeling that maybe a newly defined term
>> is producing a compatibility problem (no problem till version 1.43o).
>
> Indeed. The "Scrollbar sliceSelector" was replaced by a
> "ScrollbarWithLabel sliceSelector" without prior warning. The bad part is
> that "ScrollbarWithLabel" has a Scrollbar as member, but extends the Panel
> class, thereby breaking backwards-compatibility.
>
> I only see two ways out:
>
> 1) adjust Image5D (which means, however, that everybody has to upgrade to
> a new Image5D when upgrading ImageJ)
>
> 2) reverting the change in ImageJ, or at least adjusting it.
>
> I'll let Wayne make the call.

The bug in v1.43p that caused Image5D to crash is fixed in v1.43q.

-wayne