Sorry to hear of your troubles. Did you put both bio-formats.jar and
As for the Common Toolbar error, I have not heard of it. You could try
>
> I installed the files where indicated and when I run ImageJ, the Loci
> plug-ins are there. However, nothing happens when I choose them. I
> presume a dialog box should come up? (ImageJ 1.37j, Java 1.5 MacOSX)
>
> Unrelated, but when I start ImageJ I get a message: "Unrecognized
> Command: Common Toolbar". I can't figure out where this is coming
> from. Any ideas?
>
> Dr. David Knecht
> Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
> U-3125
> 91 N. Eagleville Rd.
> University of Connecticut
> Storrs, CT 06269
> 860-486-2200
> 860-486-4331 (fax)
>
>
> On Aug 25, 2006, at 2:42 PM, Curtis Rueden wrote:
>
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Some additional notes about the Bio-Formats release:
> >
> > First, if you tried out Bio-Formats yesterday or early this morning, I
> > failed to mention that there is an additional support library
> > required (
> > ome-java.jar) that goes into ImageJ/jre/lib/ext (or
> > /System/Library/Java/Extensions on Mac OS X) along with bio-
> > formats.jar. You
> > can download this library from the Bio-Formats web site (and I have
> > updated
> > the instructions accordingly). Apologies for my mistake.
> >
> > Second, I have updated loci_plugins.jar to include a simple
> > metadata viewer
> > with the Bio-Formats Importer plugin. Just make sure "Show associated
> > metadata" is checked, and the metadata parsed from your file(s)
> > will appear
> > in a table in its own window.
> >
> > Lastly, I should mention that Bio-Formats only works with Java 1.4
> > or later,
> > so if you are running the Windows version of ImageJ bundled with
> > Java 1.3,
> > you'll need to upgrade to the Java 5.0 version if you want to use
> > Bio-Formats.
> >
> > -Curtis
> >
> > On 8/24/06, Curtis Rueden <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Today LOCI has released a new version of the Bio-Formats plugin for
> >> reading and writing common microscopy formats with ImageJ.
> >> Significant
> >> improvements have been made to Leica LIF and Olympus FV1000 OIB
> >> support, as
> >> well as many other bugfixes.
> >>
> >> You can download the release from the Bio-Formats website:
> >>
http://www.loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats.html> >>
> >> Please note that the library has been split into two files: bio-
> >> formats.jar
> >> (the core library) and loci_plugins.jar (the ImageJ plugins). Just
> >> put bio
> >> -formats.jar in your extensions folder (ImageJ\jre\lib\ext on
> >> Windows,
> >> /System/Library/Java/Extensions on Mac OS X), and put
> >> loci_plugins.jar in
> >> the ImageJ plugins folder.
> >>
> >> As always, please let me know if you have problems reading data in
> >> any
> >> supported format, or would like support added for additional formats.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Curtis
> >>
>