Re: a tutorial on a custom image format file reader / writer

Posted by Albert Cardona on Apr 15, 2008; 12:01pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/a-tutorial-on-a-custom-image-format-file-reader-writer-tp3696492p3696510.html

Curtis Rueden wrote:

> Hi Albert,
>
> Thanks for this guide. I think it is very useful currently, but hopefully in
> the future we can improve the ImageJ I/O plugin architecture to reduce the
> need for many of these steps. I have some ideas on how to do so, but have
> not yet had time to work on them.
>
> LOCI also has a guide to adding new file format readers to Bio-Formats:
> https://skyking.microscopy.wisc.edu/svn/java/trunk/loci/formats/doc/reader-guide.txt
>  

Thanks Curtis, I wasn't aware of LOCI's accessible API for adding new
reader/writer capabilities, and the automatic virtualization (which is
great and very much needed).

We included LOCI into fiji. I will write a reader/writer using LOCI to
test it out, familiarize myself with it and document it.

As for the advantage of avoiding the HandleExtraFileTypes: with LOCI the
problem is transported somewhere else. I agree we need a "drop in"
system, perhaps a folder like the macros folder where file
readers/writers are read from, which implement a specific interface.
Just an idea.

Albert

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