getMetada problem

Posted by Aryeh Weiss on Sep 08, 2009; 7:50pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Which-journal-to-publish-an-ImageJ-based-application-tp3691248p3691250.html

I cannot seem to print anything from getMetadata.

The following produces a blank output followed by the
===== string.

selectWindow("testimage")
mdat=getMetadata("Info");
print(mdat);
print("====");

On the other hand:

selectWindow("testimage")
mdat=getMetadata("Label");
print(mdat);
print("====");

produces the expected output. I saw some discussion of getMetadata in
the archives, but I did not find the solution. I assume that I do not
understand how to use this function.

Also, I think that the getMetadata("Info") only returns the text in the
image info window (is that correct?). If so, is there a way to read
arbitrary TIFF labels in a macro (other than calling bio-formats,
getting the matadata in a text window, and then reading the text from
that window?

--aryeh
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Aryeh Weiss
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Bar Ilan University
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