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Re: Dialog naming restrictions for plugins/macros?

Posted by Wayne Rasband on May 01, 2006; 4:40pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Dialog-naming-restrictions-for-plugins-macros-tp3701208p3701209.html

To work with macros, the first word of each component label in a dialog
must be unique. If this is not the case, add underscores, which will be
converted to spaces when the dialog is displayed. For example, the
three labels

   "Quality mode (Selection)"
   "Quality measure (Selection)"
   "Quality map (Selection)"

should be changed to

   "Quality_mode (Selection)"
   "Quality_measure (Selection)"
   "Quality_map (Selection)"

-wayne

> I recently came about one plugin programming issue that I
> did not yet read see mentioned in the docs I browsed through
> (Sorry, if I missed some obvious pointers....)
>
> It goes along this: Many plugins have dialog boxes that pop
> up each time you call those manually, however this usually
> would preclude from using those plugins in many macros (that
> repeatedly call those), because execution would stop and the
> user would need to interact. However as it seems, ImageJ has
> that smart capability to "remote-control" those dialog
> boxes, as one can easily verify with the macro recorder. So
> far, so very good!!
>
> Nevertheless, it seems, to do this "remote controlling", the
> above mechanism seems to use only the first non blank
> substring of the dialog entry. Here comes the problem: When
> I have several entries, that start with the same substring,
> I get a message "multiple entries" or similar and it fails.
>
> As an example, in a 2D phase unwrapping plugin I`m releasing
> I have several entries
>
> Quality mode (Selection)
> Quality measure (Selection)
> Quality map (Selection)
>
> or
>
> Show quality map (Checkbox)
> Show residue map (Checkbox)
>
> etc.
>
> Where is this documented, also that "remote control"
> feature? Do I need to rename the entries to avoid the same
> start of the string? Remove blanks? Replace them by
> underscore? Can I use some trick to avoid all this?
>
> Joachim
>
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