Re: Save to a project

Posted by Gabriel Landini on Jan 11, 2007; 10:23am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Save-to-a-project-tp3700630p3700632.html

On Thursday 11 January 2007 08:54, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, ZQ wrote:
> > should ImageJ add a function to save all
> > windows into one project? That may include all images (images, FFT,
> > histogram and whatever)

> Interesting idea. Reminds me of the "Save Network" function of Amira.

Yes, it would be useful, but thinking about it, I am not sure if this could
actually work.
Surely one can write a macro to save to a project directory the Options, all
images that are are open, all text windows open, ROIs and any data in the
Results table (if any).

Then to open the project, one can load everything back (even one can load the
results back with the Results Table importer), but would this put IJ in
exactly the same state as when saved?
(for instance, saving a histogram window as an image does not save the data in
it, and I guess it is the same with the FFT images?, what about spatial and
greyscale calibration of each image, applied LUTs, stretched LUT but not
applied, ROIs in the manager, etc).
What about plugins that run in a different thread (like the threshold
adjuster)? Those would not retain the values set at the time of saving the
project. Think that some of those plugins take the current image as a
parameter. Wouldn't it be difficult to know what open plugin is acting on
which image?

Cheers

Gabriel