Posted by
ctrueden on
Apr 15, 2008; 6:42pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/a-tutorial-on-a-custom-image-format-file-reader-writer-tp3696492p3696511.html
Hi Albert,
Good point about the HandleExtraFileTypes problem being transported
somewhere else. Right now you either need to edit readers.txt, or have some
static code somewhere that registers your format readers with the
ImageReader class. I agree that inventing some kind of drop-in mechanism
would be superior -- perhaps something like I just described in my previous
email.
Regarding fiji, I'll second Gabriel's comment: where can we find out more?
Is there a web site for it? Is it similar to Tony's MBF ImageJ bundle in
that it comes with a bunch of plugins preinstalled? What is fiji's purpose?
-Curtis
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Albert Cardona <
[hidden email]>
wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Albert Cardona
>
http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Hartenstein/acardona>