Re: strange behaviour when opening files

Posted by Wayne Rasband on Jul 09, 2009; 1:01pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/about-macro-tp3691848p3691855.html

On Jul 9, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Johannes-P. KOCH wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I experience a strange behaviour upon opening files using the "Open
> As..."-Windows command (i.e. clicking on the file in the Windows
> explorer with a right click, then "Open As..." ...). In previous
> ImageJ versions (1.42o) all files were opened in the same ImageJ; now
> (1.43b), the images are all opened in new ImageJ programs. So, I have
> to use ImageJ's command "Open...". Sometimes, this is quite disturbing
> especially when one is working on files stored in "far away"
> directories.
> I could observe this behaviour on Windows XP (SP3) and Windows Vista
> (SP2).

You can avoid this problem by enabling "Run socket listener" in
Edit>Options>Misc.

-wayne