Thanks curtis. Using the Dialog function works fine for me!
-- Joseph F. Margiotta, PhD
Dept. of Neurosciences
>Hi Joseph,
>
>> My problem is that I am new to this programming language and I can¹t
>> figure out how I input a variable and have the macro use that value in
>> a calculation.
>
>The classical way is using the Dialog.* macro functions:
>
http://imagej.net/developer/macro/functions.html#dialog>
>The "ImageJ2 way" is to declare your input and output parameters at the
>top
>of your macro/script; e.g.:
>
> // @String name
> // @OUTPUT String greeting
>
> // An ImageJ macro with parameters.
> // It is the duty of the scripting framework to harvest
> // the 'name' parameter from the user, and then display
> // the 'greeting' output parameter, based on its type.
>
> greeting = "Hello " + name + "!";
>
>For numeric parameters, you can use "double" for the type instead of
>"String".
>
>You an access the above macro as a starting point by pressing the "[" key
>to launch the Script Editor, then choosing Templates > IJ1 Macro >
>Greeting.
>
>You will need to be using ImageJ2 for this approach to work. The easiest
>way to do that at the moment is to download the Fiji distribution of
>ImageJ
>from:
http://imagej.net/Downloads>
>Regards,
>Curtis
>
>On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Margiotta, Joseph <
>
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> I would like to write a macro that allows the user to set the tolerance
>> for the wand tool by clicking on two points that represent the
>>boundaries
>> of light and dark and then take the difference between these values as
>>the
>> tolerance.
>>
>> This difference value could then be used in a line of code for the
>>macro I
>> have already written and that is now specified as 2500 in the macro
>>below
>> that is set up to draw a perimeter around a light area in a stack of 25
>> images:
>>
>>
>> run("Set Scale...", "distance=0 known=0 pixel=1 unit=pixel");
>>
>> setTool("point");
>>
>> s = selectionType();
>>
>>
>> if( s == -1 ) {
>>
>> exit("There was no selection.");
>>
>> } else if( s != 10 ) {
>>
>> exit("The selection wasn't a point selection.");
>>
>> } else {
>>
>> getSelectionCoordinates(xPoints,yPoints);
>>
>> x = xPoints[0];
>>
>> y = yPoints[0];
>>
>> showMessage("Got coordinates ("+x+","+y+")");
>>
>> };wait(2000);
>>
>> w = selectionType();
>>
>>
>> if( w == -1 ) {
>>
>> exit("There was no selection.");
>>
>> } else if( w != 10 ) {
>>
>> exit("The selection wasn't a point selection.");
>>
>> } else {
>>
>> getSelectionCoordinates(xPoints,yPoints);
>>
>> x1 = xPoints[0];
>>
>> y1 = yPoints[0];
>>
>> showMessage("Got coordinates ("+x1+","+y1+")");
>>
>> }
>>
>> for (i=1; i<=25; i++) {
>>
>> j=1*i;
>>
>> Stack.setSlice(j);
>>
>> //setTool("wand");
>>
>> doWand(x, y, 2500, "8-connected");
>>
>> doWand(x1, y1, 2500, "8-connected");
>>
>> run("Measure");wait(200);
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> My problem is that I am new to this programming language and I can¹t
>> figure out how I input a variable and have the macro use that value in a
>> calculation.
>>
>> Can anyone out there help?
>>
>>
>> -- Joseph F. Margiotta, PhD
>> Dept. of Neurosciences
>> University of Toledo College of Medicine
>> 3000 Transverse Drive
>> Block HS 120A Mail Stop 1007
>> Toledo, OH 43614
>> 419-383-4119
>>
>>
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