Re: Cell Counter question

Posted by Jan Eglinger on May 05, 2015; 9:04pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Cell-Counter-question-tp5012706p5012727.html

Thanks a lot, Curtis, for this great example of using the Scijava
framework! I definitely find it useful for learning in the first place,
and it is certainly also useful for those interested in changing the
marker colors :)

Jan


On 04.05.15 21:16, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> Hi Jan,
>
>> Unless you or someone else find the time to make these adjustable via
>> a 'Settings' button, you have to live with the current behavior.
>
> Just for fun, I added a basic options dialog for configuring the colors. It
> uses the ImageJ2 API.
>
>     https://github.com/fiji/Cell_Counter/pull/1
>
> It only sets the colors of future points that are drawn -- it does not
> reset the colors of existing points.
>
> Happy to merge if people think this would be useful. That said, last time
> this plugin was discussed on the list, Olivier Burri suggested to use the
> multipoint tool instead, which I agree is probably better than this old
> Cell Counter plugin; see this thread for details:
>
>
> http://imagej.1557.x6.nabble.com/How-to-add-more-than-38-counter-types-in-Cell-Counter-plugin-tp5011798p5011841.html
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Jan Eglinger <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jared,
>>
>> On 04.05.2015 16:03, Jared Beck wrote:
>>
>>> We are using the Cell Counter plug-in to count scanned objects for a
>>> research project. Without modifying the underlying code, is there a way to
>>> change the default color for each counter type?
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately no, because the colors for type 1 to 8 are hardcoded:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/fiji/Cell_Counter/blob/master/src/main/java/CellCntrMarkerVector.java#L69-85
>>
>> Unless you or someone else find the time to make these adjustable via a
>> 'Settings' button, you have to live with the current behavior.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   We have many volunteers and would like to standardize the colors to
>>> minimize errors during counting and use colors that are more easily visible
>>> on a black background. Ideally, we would like to use counter types 1, 2,
>>> and 3 but be able to specify the colors associated with these counter types.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Jared
>>>
>>>
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