Re: Multiple menu entry user plugins, how to do it?

Posted by Wayne Rasband on Mar 25, 2006; 2:13pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-mdi-version-tp3703148p3703166.html

To get a plugin to have multiple menu entries you have to package it  
as a JAR file containing a plugins.config file. The example plugin at

     http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/jar-demo.html

has 11 menu entries. Or look at the Benchmarks package at

     http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/benchmarks.html

which consists of 6 plugins with 17 menu entries.

-wayne


On Mar 25, 2006, at 4:12 AM, Joachim Wesner wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I was wondering how some of the already "built-in" plugins
> get their functionality that ONE plugin has SEVERAL menu
> entries, for example with the now permanently
> built-in FFT plugin, that has sub-menus like
> "FFT", "Inverse FFT", "Redisplay...", FFT options..." etc.
>
> I found out that the action for the plugin to do is controlled
> by the argument in the setup routine, (easy, documented),
> however, what causes the extra menu entries and to send
> the extra options to setup (not so much documented IMHO) ?
> Looking through the sources you can find out that it´s all in
> the IJ_props.txt, which is normally AFAIK in the ij.jar file, so
> no "user servicable part" while the plugin development phase.
>
> Any idea how to implement an extra "Options/Settings" entry
> for a user defined Plugin? Use 2 plugins that communicate
> by global variables (Brrrr) resp. an extra class?
>
> Sincerely
>
> Joachim
>
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