AW: Macro Question

Posted by Kirmse Robert on Aug 25, 2005; 8:54am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Macro-Question-tp3704978p3704980.html

Thank you wayne,
I stumbled over it some time after i posted the question.
But anyway thank you for taking time to answer.

Regards
robert


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> I was wondering if it is possible to save the content  of a variable
> in a macro to the next  run of it.
>
> I need this because I want to process some images and save different
> ROIs as XY data.
> It would speed up the process if I could just press a key and a macro
> calls  the "save as XY" (that´s no problem) but inserts by itself the
> path and an increasing number to the filename like data001.txt ->
> data002.txt and so on.
>
> So I am searching a possiblility to store the path and an integer in
> variables (increasing the integer after every save
> action) but without  loosing the values after the termination of the
> macro.
>
> I have looked through the examples but maybe I overlooked something or
> maybe it is not possible at all.

Use global variables. There is an example at

     http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/developer/macro/macros.html#variables

-wayne