Re: startup plugins from more than one folder on the menu

Posted by ctrueden on Oct 17, 2013; 8:45pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/startup-plugins-from-more-than-one-folder-on-the-menu-tp5005223p5005230.html

Hi Robert,

> Configurable site-wide plugins combined with  group- and/or
> personal-plugins would be handy but it seems not entirely obvious
> (to me) how to configure this.

ImageJ 1.x does not support this. It is something we are planning to
support in ImageJ2, however.

In the meantime, one thing you can do is symlink (on non-Windows platforms)
additional folders beneath your main plugins folder.

Regards,
Curtis


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Robert Atwood
<[hidden email]>wrote:

> Hi, all
> Is there an easy way (or even slightly not-so-easy way) to have the
> plugins from different folders installed in the menu when imagej starts up?
> Looking here http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/docs/menus/plugins.html
>
>
> I tried to apply the plugins.dir property for  multiple plugin directorys,
> is there a certain way that Java likes path portions to be concatenated?
> I tried
>
> -Dplugins.dir="/first/folder;/second/folder"
> -Dplugins.dir="/first/folder /second/folder"
> -Dplugins.dir="/first/folder" -Dplugins.dir="/second/folder"
>
> Where each of these folders contains a plugins/ folder with some .ijm
> files within. Each one can be included successfully on its own, but then
> the original defaults are not
>
> Invariably I get one or neither of these folders included but not both,
> and if one is included.
>
> Configurable site-wide plugins combined with  group- and/or
> personal-plugins would be handy but it seems not entirely obvious (to me)
> how to configure this.
>
> Thanks
> Robert
>
>
>
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