Re: automatic plugins submenu

Posted by Ben.BigHair on Jun 04, 2007; 10:16pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/automatic-plugins-submenu-tp3699229p3699232.html

Ben Tupper wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Reading "Writing ImageJ Plugins—A Tutorial" by Werner Bailer indicates
> that in the past the plugins folder could have subdirectories from which
> submenus are automatically created.  I noticed that for ImageJ 1.38t on
> Mac OSX it doesn't seem to work.  Here's a snippet from the tutorial
> which was written for version 1.36.
>
>> 2.2 Plugins Folder—Installing Plugins ImageJ user plugins have to be
>> located in a folder called plugins, which is a subfolder of the ImageJ
>> folder. But only class files in the plugins folder with at least one
>> underscore in their name appear automatically in the “Plugins” menu.
>> Since version 1.20 it is also possible to create subfolders of the
>> plugins folder and place plugin files there. The subfolders are
>> displayed as submenus of ImageJ’s “Plugins” menu.
>
> I didn't find any reference in the ImageJ News bulletin about a change
> away from that behavior. Is there a trick to this?
>

Mea Culpa!   Thanks to Wayne for straightening me out.  I misread the
explanation in the tutorial (which is very clear.)

Thanks!
Ben