Re: Macro control over QuickTime Player window in ImageJ?

Posted by Bill Mohler on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Macro-control-over-QuickTime-Player-window-in-ImageJ-tp3699369p3699379.html

Thanks, Jerome (and to you Gabriel).

This looks like it could be quite helpful.  But in looking at the
online documentation, am I right in thinking that the
up,down,right,left-arrow keys are not emulatable using the KeyPress
command?  I would love to be able to script them for this task.
Also, I'm a bit unclear whether IJ_Robot will emulate modified
keystrokes (like "cmd-`").

Bill

At 8:37 AM +0200 5/22/07, jerome mutterer wrote:

>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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