Re: unable to select windows if they have the same name

Posted by ctrueden on Aug 11, 2008; 8:38pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/unable-to-select-windows-if-they-have-the-same-name-tp3695409p3695412.html

Hi John,

Though I do recommend programming with image IDs rather than names in
your macros, I still think that Bio-Formats should generate unique but
predictable window names whenever possible. If you could describe a
circumstance where you are seeing all identical window names, we can
work on improving the behavior.

-Curtis

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:40 AM, John Alexander <[hidden email]> wrote:

> It hasn't really been a problem since I use the unique ID number as an
> identifier in all my macros and rarely use the image name.  I use the
> LOCI bioformats plug-in to open my images (they are in the proprietary
> slidebook format) so I would still have to open all the images, then
> rename them.  But there is no point since I use the unique ID anyways.
>
> If you pass a positive id to selectImage() - it selects the idth image
> on the window list.
>
> Turns out the selectImage() works fine with all images being the same
> name, as in the following snippet works fine ...
>
> for (i=0;i<nImages;i++) {
> selectImage(i+1);
> ids[i]=getImageID();
> }
>
> what doesn't work is when you manually try to click on the 6th image,
> only the first (of that filename) is selected.
>
> This is a problem when I am manually processing a set of images.
>
>
>
> Gabriel Landini wrote:
>> On Friday 01 August 2008 16:40:29 John Alexander wrote:
>>
>>> I just noticed that the list of images one sees when looking in the
>>> ImageJ->Window list
>>> must use the image name rather than the ID since I am unable to select
>>> any image other than the first.
>>
>> Even if it used the ID, it would quite ugly to go through a list of same-named
>> images. Is that image 123 or 124? There is too much room for doing mistakes.
>>
>>> This is now proving problematic if I have 30 images opened with the same
>>> name - and I want to manually go through them - I have no way of quickly
>>> select the 5th image manually.  I have to shuffle all the windows to one
>>> side to find the one I want.
>>
>> This sounds like the Monty Python sketch where everybody is called Bruce.
>> What about something like renaming your images with the ID as you open them?
>>
>>> Not really a bug report, but, the list is rather useless as a means to
>>> select images in my particular case.
>>
>> Give every image a number or suffix and that would sort it.
>>
>>> Plus (and I have not confirmed
>>> this) it makes me wonder if the selectImage() would not work properly if
>>> I used an id that is positive.
>>
>> According to the documentation, the ID is a unique negative number.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> G.
>>
>
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