Re: How to use a plugin with duplicate dialog keywords in a macro?

Posted by John Alexander-7 on Jul 13, 2008; 10:45pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/How-to-use-a-plugin-with-duplicate-dialog-keywords-in-a-macro-tp3695605p3695607.html

Actually, I take that back.  The macro runs - however the Intensity
Correlation Analysis plugin is not taking as input the specified
Channel_1 and Channel_2.

Does anyone know how to pass specific images to the plug-in?

Thanks,

John



John Alexander wrote:

> Sorry, I figured out you can be more descriptive in passing arguments.
> The following works:
>
> run("Intensity Correlation Analysis", "Channel_1=image-red
> Channel_2=image-green Channel_Combination=[Red : Green] use=None use
> crosshair=3");
>
>
>
>
> John Alexander wrote:
>> Hi group,
>>
>> So I am writing a macro that is going to batch perform the Image
>> Correlation Analysis plugin on all open images.
>>
>> The difficulty I am having is that the dialog window asks for an image
>> for channel 1 and channel 2 and the channel combination, but apparently
>> there was no preceding underscore for the channel 2 or channel
>> combination dialog boxes, so I get a "duplicate keyword" error.
>>
>> My macro doesn't seem to work with the following:
>> run("Intensity Correlation Analysis", "channel=image-red
>> channel=image-green channel=[Red : Green] use=None use crosshair=3");
>>
>> I get image-red is not a valid choice for channel combination, which is
>> the third dialog option.
>>
>> Does that make sense?
>>
>> I need to find a work around ...
>>
>> John
>>
>

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