Re: TIFF Image Timestamp (capture time)

Posted by austincb on Dec 16, 2006; 9:27pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/TIFF-Image-Timestamp-capture-time-tp3700783p3700794.html

Roger --- thanks for the links!

I'm a little confused as to how I access some of these methods.
I don't know what to preface getMetaData(); with. For showMessage, I
have to put IJ. before it (IJ.showMessage("blah");)...
What do I have to do to access getMetaData()?

-Austin

Michael Miller wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When hacking away at the ImageJ, here is a great resource in general:
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/developer/index.html
>
> More specifically for your case, you want the Build-in Macro Functions:
>
> Here's it's documentation:
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/developer/macro/functions.html#getMetadata
>
> You can use the macro command: (also on that page)
> showMessage("title", "message")
> Displays "message" in a dialog box using "title" as the the dialog box
> title.
> {(Note to whom maintains the macro list, Wayne? :
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/developer/macro/functions.html#showMessage 
> doesn't seem to work, and it could be neat if it did, even if it doesn't
> necessarily have a related link. Ie, for all the macro functions?, #S
> does, and maybe that's good enough...)}
>
> So, as an actual physical example I believe something like:
> myMetaData = getMetaData();
> showMessage("The MetaData", myMetaData);
> Would be at least a first try. Run something like this on an already
> open, active image.
>
> Once you see the format of the string (and whether or not your desired
> info is actually in there), you can use a command like indexOf (and/or
> it's related) to pull out what you need.
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/developer/macro/functions.html#indexOf
>
> Now, getting way too fancy, depending on how you want the data you can
> push it all out into a results table:
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/developer/macro/functions.html#setResult
>
> But I'm going to stop there, because we don't even have it confirmed yet
> that your metadata contains their original times :-)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "austincb" <[hidden email]>
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> Subject: Re: TIFF Image Timestamp (capture time)
>
>
>> Weird... I don't seem to have it (or I can't find it).
>
>