creating macros, calling plugins...

Posted by Peter Gregson on Aug 26, 2008; 12:12am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/creating-macros-calling-plugins-tp3695289.html

How do I call plugins, especially external ones, from a macro?  The  
real question is how do I know the order of the arguments in the  
argument string, and the names of them?  For example, calling  
"Deriche" is easy

run("Deriche ", "alpha=1 display");

I used Macro->Record... to capture this.  It works, byt how would I  
know to inoke "display" in the string when there is a check-box in the  
GUI for it?

When I try to invoke Image->Scale... it passes the arguments that I  
select in the GUI.  However, when I invoke Plugins->Morphology, all I  
get in the macro Recorder window is

run("Morphology ");

without any of the arguments that I selected in the Morphology  
plugin's GUI.

What is the difference between these plugins?  How can I determine  
what arguments I need and how to invoke them when calling a plugin,  
either from a macro or another plugin?

Best regards,

Peter