Re: toggle overlay

Posted by Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] on Sep 26, 2012; 4:24pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/toggle-overlay-tp5000204p5000211.html

On Sep 26, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Christian Goosmann wrote:

> Dear Wizards out there,
> I'd like to set a keyboard shortcut to toggle between 'overlay shown'
> and 'overlay hidden'. I found no such function so I thought of writing a
> short macro. Can someone point me to a command that does this or a
> function that returns whether an existing overlay is hidden or shown at
> the moment?

Here is a macro that toggles the overlay:

   macro "Toggle Overlay [f1]" {
      if (Overlay.size>0) {
         if (Overlay.hidden)
            Overlay.show;
         else
            Overlay.hide;
      }
   }

Add it to the StartupMacros file to have it installed when ImageJ is launched.

-wayne

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