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Re: new releases: LSMToolbox 4.0d and LSM_Reader 4.0d

Posted by jmutterer on Apr 29, 2008; 9:13am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/new-releases-LSMToolbox-4-0d-and-LSM-Reader-4-0d-tp3696349p3696356.html

I will add a download link in the ImageJ wiki Magic Montage article at
http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/Members/jmutterer/Magic_Montage/

Jerome


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Patrick Pirrotte <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Christophe,
>
> You can find version 1.1 in the the source code of the LSM_Toolbox
> (http://www.image-archive.org/index.php?id=115):
>
> It's in the package: org\imagearchive\lsm\toolbox\macros\
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ImageJ Interest Group [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
> Christophe Leterrier
> Sent: 29 April 2008 10:17
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: new releases: LSMToolbox 4.0d and LSM_Reader 4.0d
>
> Dear Patrick (and Jérôme),
>
> Is there a place where I can download the Magic Montage toolbar only,
> without the LSM toolbox ? The LSM toolbox is great, but I'm just trying to
> set up a '"minimal" distro for a few basic users here, and Magic Montage
> would be very usefull for them (they don't use any Zeiss scope at the
> moment). I went to the ImageJ wiki and found the Magic Montage article (
> http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/Members/jmutterer/Magic_Montage/) but there is
> no
> download there.
>
> Thanks a lot !
>
> Christophe Leterrier
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Patrick Pirrotte <
> [hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > New releases of the LSM_Toolbox and LSM_Reader are available.
> >
> > LSMToolbox 4.0d wiki page:
> > http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/Members/ppirrotte/lsmtoolbox/
> > LSMToolbox 4.0d download page:
> > http://www.image-archive.org/index.php?id=115
> >
> > LSMReader 4.0d wiki page:
> > http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/Members/ppirrotte/lsm_reader/
> > LSMReader 4.0d download page:
> > http://www.image-archive.org/index.php?id=156
> >
> > Several bugs have been fixed and a few new features have been added.
> > Most importantly, compressed and uncompressed images work again for
> > ZEISS LSM images, after a bug in ImageJ's readCompressed16bit method was
> corrected.
> > Jérôme Mutterer also contributed the excellent Magic Montage Macro
> > toolset, which will allow the quick creation and shuffling of montage
> > images. These macros are now accessible on the IJ toolbar and are
> > installed through the Toolbox interface. If you supply a more recent
> > version of magic_montage in the IJ toolset directory, that version
> > will be used by the toolbox.
> >
> > The much discussed problem on race conditions using the toolbox/reader
> > in macros seems to be resolved. Furthermore, lsm files can be batch
> > converted via a listings file. The listings file (extension csv)
> > should be defined as
> > follows:
> >
> >
> > input_file[TAB]output_dir[TAB]file_format(tiff|jpeg|gif|...)[TAB]verbo
> > se(0|1
> > )[TAB]create_sepDir(0|1)[NEXT_LINE]
> >
> > Here's the changelog for the two last versions.
> >
> >  2008/04/23 (v4.0d):
> >   - Reader/toolbox: minor bugfixes
> >   - Toolbox: a bug caused a race condition resulting in macros
> > behaving erratically has been fixed
> >   - Toolbox: image preview: the thumbnail is shown in grayscale
> >   - Toolbox: image preview: added a slider to brows through thumbnail
> > stacks
> >   - Toolbox: Added Magic_Montage, a bunch of useful macros by Jérôme
> > Mutterer, installed via toolbox. Version check addeed.
> >     into the ImageJ toolbar via the Toolbox user interface
> >   - Reader/Toolbox: 8bit and 12bit compressed and uncompressed images
> work
> >   - Toolbox: batch conversion interface: added a reset button to empty
> > the file list
> >
> >  2008/03/07 (v4.0c):
> >   - Reader/toolbox: minor bugfixes
> >   - Reader/toolbox: images are opened as hyperstacks
> >   - Toolbox: fixed the binding to HyperVolumeBrowser and Image5D
> >   - Toolbox: fixed the stamping of images
> >   - Reader/toolbox: added support for linescan (scantype 2)
> >   - Toolbox: cleaned up the way some internal strings are read (thanks
> > to Peter H. Li)
> >   - Toolbox: added batch file support via tab delimited [TAB] csv
> > file. In each row
> >
> >
> > input_file[TAB]output_dir[TAB]file_format(tiff|jpeg|gif|...)[TAB]verbo
> > se(0|1
> > )[TAB]create_sepDir(0|1)
> >
> > Thank you for all the bug reports and useful comments. Don't hesitate
> > to contact me (patrick(at)image-archive.org) if you need something
> > fixed in the reader/toolbox.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> > _______________________
> > Patrick Pirrotte, PhD
> > Institute of Immunology
> >
> > Laboratoire National de Santé
> > WHO Collaborating Centre for Measles
> > WHO European Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella
> >
> > 20A, rue Auguste Lumière
> > L-1950 Luxembourg
> > Tel: +352-490604226
> > Fax: +352-490686
> >
>