Background gray value/fill?

Posted by Frederic V. Hessman on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Strange-ClassCastException-A-puzzle-for-Java-ImageJ-experts-to-help-me-wit-tp3692688p3692700.html

I naively wanted to use the drawing tools to fill in the value of a  
masked region of a 32-bit image: select the value using the picker,  
fill in the area with the fill bucket.

When I tried it, I realized my naivite: the picker is a ColorPicker  
and only sees the look-up-table values, so the REAL values can't be  
picked and filled, at least not for non-color images.

Of course, there are more difficult ways around this problem - create  
a mask, manipulate the mask, apply the manipulated mask - but it seems  
like the straight-forward way of doing it should work.

Before I attempt to modify ColorPicker and Toolbar, I thought I'd ask  
for simpler solutions I haven't thought about.

No, please don't send me a macro - I know one can do it using a dozen  
lines of ImageJ code.   The point is that simple standard things  
shouldn't require an extra macro

Rick



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