Macro control over QuickTime Player window in ImageJ?

Posted by Bill Mohler on May 21, 2007; 9:36pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Macro-control-over-QuickTime-Player-window-in-ImageJ-tp3699369.html

Hi All:

I have been using the Import>QuickTime Player feature that Jeff
Hardin and Wayne added to recent versions of ImageJ.  It is extremely
useful for extracting and analyzing clips from the very large
QuickTimeVR movies that my lab uses.  Currently we do this extraction
using manual switching among windows and use of the "G" key to grab
images from the movie window.

I would like to use a macro to allow us to extract such clips more
automatically.  But in my experience, the macro recorder  does not
register anything I do within the QTplayer window.  Furthermore, the
movie window doesn't even appear on the list under the Window menu.
But I can toggle to the QTplayer window using "command-`" on the Mac.

I am imagining that I could create a macro that uses the "command-`"
and "G" and "arrow" keystrokes (just as I use them now manually) to
let a macro extract clips.  Browsing the Macro reference pdf,
however, I did not see a way to program keystroke events, per se,
into a macro.  Is this possible?

Many thanks for your help,
Bill

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