Posted by
Wayne Rasband on
Sep 04, 2009; 9:41pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Plugin-with-own-context-menu-tp3691307p3691308.html
>Hi group,
>
>I would like to write a plugin that overrides or extends
>the mouse context menu of it´s image(s) with own
>operations to add some simple "dynamic functionality"
>to the plugin.
>(A regular Plugin or PluginFilter is more static, usually
>after it´s run you need to rerun it on the original source
>image if you want to get to the dialog to change any
>parameters etc.)
>
>I have a basic idea how to achieve this via mouse
>listeners etc. but I wonder if there is a simpler solution
>that uses ImageJ built-in functionality.
>
>Has anybody already done something like that in his plugin?
You can write a simple macro to customize the contextual menu that
appears when you right click on an image. There is an example at
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/macros/CustomPopupMenu.txtLook at the the installPopupMenu() method in ImageJ's MacroInstaller
class at
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/source/ij/plugin/MacroInstaller.javato see how to do this in a plugin.
It would be better and easier, however, to simply add a "Preview"
button to your plugin's dialog box. There is a plugin at
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/erode-demo.htmlthat demonstrates how to do this. It also demonstrates how to add a
"Help" button to a dialog box.
-wayne