Re: Passing arguments to plugins in a macro

Posted by simon andrews (BI) on Jan 27, 2010; 12:33pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Passing-arguments-to-plugins-in-a-macro-tp3689580p3689582.html

Thanks Ben,

Macro.getOptions()

...was the bit I was missing.  It's all working fine now.

Cheers

Simon.

On 27 Jan 2010, at 12:02, Ben Tupper wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Check out ...
>
> http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=howto:plugins:retrieving_the_optional_args_when_a_plugin_is_called_from_a_macro
>
> CHeers,
> Ben
>
> On Jan 27, 2010, at 6:04 AM, Simon Andrews wrote:
>
>> I've written a plugin which puts up a configuration dialog in normal
>> operation so the user can tweak the settings.  I want to be able to
>> run this plugin from within a macro in a non-interactive way.
>>
>> I've tried to do this by parsing the arguments passed to the setup
>> method - but I can't seem to get them to appear in the macro.
>>
>> For example if I put in the macro:
>>
>> run("My Plugin")
>>
>> The plugin runs and the args string is empty,
>>
>> but if I run:
>>
>> run("My Plugin","Some args")
>>
>> ..then the args String passed to the setup method is still empty.
>>
>> I'm sure I'm just misunderstanding how this works.  Could someone
>> please explain how to pass data from a macro to a plugin.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Simon.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Ben