Re: HistogramWindow to plugin...

Posted by Tony Collins-4 on Nov 25, 2009; 6:30pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/MTrack2-plugin-bug-fix-tp3690333p3690337.html

Perfect!
Thanks Wayne.
Tony

 
Tony J. Collins, Ph.D.
McMaster Biophotonics Facility
HSC 4H21A, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ImageJ Interest Group [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Wayne
> Rasband
> Sent: November 25, 2009 1:14 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: HistogramWindow to plugin...
>
>  > I'd like a bit more control over the histogram plot in ImageJ
>  > (size, text displayed, etc.) for some FLIM images I want to
>  > publish. I though the quickest way to do this would be to
>  > adapt the core HistogramWindow() code and convert it to a
>  > plugin that I could customise.
>  > http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/developer/source/ij/gui/
>  > HistogramWindow.java.html
>  >
>  > I replaced: package ij.gui; with import ij.gui.*;
>  >
>  > and swapped the string: HistogramWindow
>  >
>  > With My_HistogramWindow And saved it as
>  > My_HistogramWindow.java
>  >
>  > It compiles OK but I get an error *dialog* saying "Unable
>  > to load plugin (ins)".
>  >
>  > Any suggestions as to whether there is a fix to this would
>  > be much appreciated.
>
> You're getting the "Unable to load plugin (ins)" error because the
> HistogramWindow class does not implement the PlugIn interface. What you
> need to do is create a plugin that includes HistogramWindow as an inner
> class. It would look something like this:
>
>     public class Histogram_Window implements PlugIn {
>
>        public void run(String arg) {
>           new HistogramWindow(IJ.getImage());
>        }
>
>        class HistogramWindow extends ImageWindow {
>        ....
>        }
>
>     }
>
> There is a working example at
>
>
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/download/misc/Histogram_Window.java
>
> -wayne