Re: Macro control over QuickTime Player window in ImageJ?

Posted by jmutterer on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Macro-control-over-QuickTime-Player-window-in-ImageJ-tp3699369p3699378.html

Bill,
you could try to use the IJ_Robot plugin by Gabriel Landini.
You can get it from Gabriel's webpage.
http://www.dentistry.bham.ac.uk/landinig/software/software.html

Jerome

On 5/21/07, Bill Mohler <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> 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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