Process Virtual Stack...

Posted by Jeffrey B. Woodward on Sep 17, 2008; 5:24pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Process-Virtual-Stack-tp3695050.html

ImageJ'ers,

I have recently been doing a fair amount of work with Virtual Stacks
(both writing new plugins that consume and produce Virtual Stacks and
consuming Virtual Stacks from existing plugins such as
Import->Sequence), and I have come across the following complaint from
one of my users. Operations under the "Process" menu (such as Find
Edges, Smooth, etc) go through all of motions of processing a virtual
stack; however, the outcome of the processing is never realized. I
assume that this is because of the getProcessor() nature of
VirtualStacks makes them effectively readonly and the various plugins
under the Process menu attempt to process the stack in place rather than
returning a new stack for the results. Not sure if this behavior is
considered a bug or not, but it is somewhat frustrating for the end user
(whom may or may not know or understand what it means to be processing a
Virtual stack). Ideally, it would be nice if the plugin were to return a
new stack when attempting to operate in place on a virtual stack;
however, that would probably mean that each such plugin would have to be
modified accordingly. Is there anything that the ImageJ platform can do
to help this situation?

Many thanks,

-Woody