Unique ResultsTable instance with clearing capabilities

Posted by Josh Doe-2 on Jan 03, 2007; 10:35pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Unique-ResultsTable-instance-with-clearing-capabilities-tp3700704.html

Right now I have a plugin which measures several unique statistics and adds
them to a ResultsTable. Right now I use ResultsTable.getResultsTable() which
gets the table used by Analyze>Measure titled "Results". This has problems
however.

If I use
my plugin to populate the table with values, and then procede to use
the Analyze>Measure tool, all of my results get deleted
without any prompting
whatsoever. Oddly, if I first use Measure and then use my plugin, then
measure again, results stay, though with the two
odd rows I added by using measure.

I tried just making my own instance of ResultsTable, but it lacks the
ability to truly clear the table (old "deleted" rows reappear when I do
another image). This is because only the window gets cleared, not the actual
ResultsTable. I see the code in the TextPanel and TextWindow classes
actually looks for the "Results" text in the title of the window to
determine whether to add the "Clear Results" menu and to provide for
selectively clearing rows.

Is there a way to have all the functionality of Analyze>Measure's
ResultsTable, without having these problems? I tried to subclass
ResultsTable, TextPanel and TextWindow to make things work, but it's gotten
so messy and it doesn't even work! I think the clearing functionality should
be built into an existing class or maybe another class, instead of TextPanel
and TextWindow using if(getTitle().equals("Results")). Thanks,
Josh D