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> Dear Grant,
>
> I had to write a plugin for this for Perkin-Elmer confocal stack
> files. There's no other way I could figure out how to do this. I
> should release this on the ImageJ web site, but need to clean it up
> and comment the code. It involves (a) knowing your naming
> structure; and (b) adding "0"s to pad the file name. The problem is
> that where these zeroes have to go depends on the naming structure,
> so there is no universal renamer that can realistically work.
>
> Hope that helps...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
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> On Jan 4, 2007, at 11:00 PM, IMAGEJ automatic digest system wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:38:15 -0800
>> From: "McAuley, Grant (LLU)" <
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>> Subject: Raw Image Stacks: Image Ordering/Reordering
>>
>> Sorry if this has been asked before (searched list archives -
>> maybe not right combination of words?).
>>
>> I need to import stacks of raw images using File->Import->Raw and
>> selecting 'Open All Files in Folder'. The images have filenames
>> that contain letters and numbers: zz-1, zz-2, ... , zz-10,
>> zz-11, ..., zz-48.
>>
>> When the stack gets created the order becomes: zz-1, zz-10,
>> zz-11, ... , zz-2, zz-21, ... instead of what I want: zz-1,
>> zz-2, ..., zz-10, zz-11, ...
>>
>> 1) Can I tell ImageJ to do a numeric instead of alpha sort on the
>> filename numbers when the stack is created?
>> 2) If not, is there a better way to resort the stack than the
>> 'Stack Sorter' plugin (nice, but tedious for 48 images/stack)?