Posted by
Michael Schmid on
Mar 25, 2008; 5:19pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/macro-for-automatic-import-of-image-sequences-tp3696770p3696771.html
Hi Oliver,
you can't specify a file with a "*" in run("Image Sequence...
You should specify one of the files there.
If you don't know the name of one file in advance, get one.
E.g., if there are only .tifs in the directory, you can write:
list = getFileList(dirX+"/ch0/");
file0 = list[0];
otherwise you have to loop through the list to find a tiff that
you can use as a starting point.
To specify that you want to import tiffs only, you can write
file=[.tif] in the run("Image Sequence... arguments.
Also, make sure that you have no variable names inside the
quotes. The argument should be, e.g.,
"open=["+dirX+"/"+ch1+"/"file0] number=..."
The plus sign is the string concatenation operator.
Michael
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On 25 Mar 2008, at 17:53, Oliver Bannach wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I'd like to have a macro for automatic opening of image sequences.
> This
> is what the macro should do:
> 1) The main directory (dirX) needs to be specified by a popup dialog
> 2) The .tif files are located in subdirectories named ch0/ and ch1/,
> respectively. The files (*.tif) in these two directories should be
> imported as two image sequences
> 3) The two sequences should be colored red and green
>
> I wrote this macro, but it doesn't seem to work:
>
> dirX = getDirectory("Choose Source Directory ");
> run("Image Sequence...", "open=[dirX\\ch0\\*.tif] number=6 starting=1
> increment=1 scale=100 file=[] or=[] convert sort");
> run("Green");
> run("Image Sequence...", "open=[dirX\\ch1\\*.tif] number=6 starting=1
> increment=1 scale=100 file=[] or=[] convert sort");
> run("Red");
>
> Maybe somebody can fix it? Any help is greatly appreciated. Many
> thanks
> in advance!
>
> regards
> Oliver