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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ImageJ Interest Group [mailto:
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> Michael Schmid
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:16 AM
> To:
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> Subject: Re: Plugin for compiling all plugins?
>
> Hi Wilhelm,
>
> ImageJ Compile&Run only works for plugins that are not in a package.
>
> If you compile the plugin externally (Eclipse or whatever) and make a jar with
> an appropriate plugins.config, you can have plugins in a package.
>
> Michael
> __________________________________________________________
> ______
> On Jun 26, 2013, at 09:28, Burger Wilhelm wrote:
>
> > Hello Curtis,
> >
> > thanks - so I did! I set up a plugin 'My_Inverter' in package 'p1' (in
> <ImageJ>/plugins/p1/My_Inverter.java), pre-compiled by Eclipse to
> p1/My_Inverter.class.
> >
> > After launching IJ, the subfolder p1 correctly appears in the plugins menu
> and the plugin executes flawlessly. However, when I try a 'Compile and Run..'
> (either the .java or the .class file) I get the following error:
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Plugin or class not found: "My_Inverter"
> > (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: My_Inverter (wrong name:
> p1/My_Inverter))
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > Actually this is the behavior I remember. Could this be a class-loader
> problem?
> >
> > --Wilhelm
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From:
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> Curtis Rueden [
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> > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 23:55
> > To: Burger Wilhelm
> > Cc: ImageJ Interest Group
> > Subject: Re: Plugin for compiling all plugins?
> >
> > Hi Wilhelm,
> >
> >> Can plugins with packages also be used if the code is not contained in
> >> a JAR file? Can they be re-compiled on demand, re-loaded and executed?
> >
> > Sure, give it a try. Just make sure the class name has an underscore in that
> case. It will be in a submenu named after the package.
> >
> > If you have any trouble with it, let us know.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Curtis
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Burger Wilhelm <Wilhelm.Burger@fh-
> hagenberg.at<mailto:
[hidden email]>> wrote:
> > AH, I was not aware that this was possible! Can plugins with packages also
> be used if the code is not contained in a JAR file? Can they be re-compiled on
> demand, re-loaded and executed?
> >
> > --Wilhelm
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From:
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> [
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> Of Curtis Rueden [
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> > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 20:52
> > To: Burger Wilhelm
> > Cc:
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> >
> > Subject: Re: Plugin for compiling all plugins?
> >
> > Hi Wilhelm,
> >
> >> ImageJ plugins are not supposed to reside in packages
> >
> > Why not? As long as you have a plugins.config defining which classes are
> plugins, they can live in packages, and they do not need an underscore in the
> name. Perhaps that would make your life easier?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Curtis
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Burger Wilhelm <Wilhelm.Burger@fh-
> hagenberg.at<mailto:
[hidden email]>> wrote:
> > Hello Curtis,
> >
> > yes, the assumption is that I have a set of plugin source-files (.java) placed
> in multiple folders inside the 'plugins' folder. I thought of a command
> "Compile all..." command (similar to "Compile and run..") that simply
> compiles all these source files but does not run anything. Of course I guess
> one could also run javac from the command line.
> >
> > My IDE (Eclipse) is actually part of the problem. I wanted to distribute a
> structured set of plugins with .java and .class files side-by-side. My Eclipse
> project is already rooted at the ImageJ's plugins folder, each inner folder in
> 'plugins' is a source folder which is its own output folder - thereby .java and
> compiled .class files come to lie together, just as I want. However, since
> ImageJ plugins are not supposed to reside in packages - Eclipse cannot export
> these source folders to a JAR file other than as a flat container (removing all
> sub-folders). So I thought I let Eclipse only generate the source tree and then
> run the compiler over it with that intended ImageJ command. Weird idea?
> >
> > Thanks much for the hints, I think I'll try the command line approach now...
> >
> > --Wilhelm
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: ImageJ Interest Group
> [
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> Curtis Rueden [
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> > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 17:33
> > To:
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> > Subject: Re: Plugin for compiling all plugins?
> >
> > Hi Wilhelm,
> >
> >> does anyone know of way to (re-)compile all other plugins within the
> >> <ImageJ>/plugins/ directory? Any hints appreciated...
> >
> > Presumably you have the source code for all such plugins in the plugins
> > folder?
> >
> > You say "all other plugins" -- does that mean you want to recompile the
> > other plugins from within a plugin of your own, at runtime? Or would it be
> > sufficient to use something like "javac -cp '../jars/*' *.java" on the
> > command line from the plugins folder?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Curtis
> >
> > P.S. If externally recompiling is sufficient, but you don't like the
> > command line, you could create an IDE project around your ImageJ folder,
> > setting your plugins folder as the source folder, and all JARs in the jars
> > folder as dependencies.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Burger Wilhelm <
> >
[hidden email]<mailto:Wilhelm.Burger@fh-
> hagenberg.at>> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello group,
> >>
> >> does anyone know of way to (re-)compile all other plugins within the
> >> <ImageJ>/plugins/ directory? Any hints appreciated...
> >>
> >> --Wilhelm
> >>
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