Problem Dragging ROIs

Posted by Aaron Schiffman on Jun 23, 2009; 8:10am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Problem-Dragging-ROIs-tp3691692.html

Hello,

Before I pose my question, I will provide some background. I have written an image analysis protocol which requires the user to define cell nuclei. This is accomplished by moving the cursor to the center of cell and hitting a certain hotkey, which creates a circular region and adds it to the ROI manager. It is often necessary for the user to move these ROIs (over 100 per image). Up until at least ImageJ version 1.40, this could be accomplished simply by clicking on the center of a ROI and dragging it to the desired location. As you can imagine, it is necessary for this process to be as painless as possible for the user.

Recently I upgraded to version 1.42q and have been experiencing some difficulties dragging and dropping ROIs. Currently, when I select an ROI it creates a temporary region around it (outlined in yellow, by default), and it is impossible to click on anything else besides the yellow region. I have an inelegant work around, but I would prefer it if I could recover my previous functionality. I have included the macro code for creating these regions below, in case anyone is interested.

Any help with this problem would be much appreciated.

macro "Macro 1 [a]" {
setOption("Show All",true);
getCursorLoc(x, y, z, flags);
makeOval(x-11, y-11, 22, 22);
roiManager("Add");
n = roiManager("count");
roiManager("select", n-1);
d = roiManager("index");
x = call("ij.plugin.frame.RoiManager.getName", d);
l = lastIndexOf(x, "-");
if(l==9){
y = substring(x, 5, 14);
roiManager("Rename", y);
}
    }

(Everything after 'roiManager("Add")' is for renaming the ROIs and is not especially pertinent here.)