Re: Name of duplicated slice from a stack

Posted by Bill Christens-Barry-2 on May 25, 2016; 6:14pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Name-of-duplicated-slice-from-a-stack-tp5016521p5016526.html

Gabriel,

I think you are right that having built-in flexibility in labeling duplicated images as an alternative to running a macro would be a useful time and effort saver.

A related thought regarding duplication of image windows, though not specific to image stack windows:

If I open a TIFF image or save a new image window as a TIFF, the title of the window then includes the ".tif" extension (on my MacOS 10 machines). Apart from metadata that is specific to TIFF format files of for reminding the user that the image exists as a stored file, I don't see why indicating the file format in the window title really pertains to an open image window. And since the default "Save"behavior for image windows is to use TIFF format, I don't see any gain for ImageJ in maintaining the ".tif" extension in the window title or loss if this extension is eliminated.

I often then use a function to remove a file extension from a window name, like this:

        dotIndex = indexOf(oName, ".");
        if (dotIndex >= 0)
                nName = substring(oName, 0, dotIndex);
        rename(nName);

If a window name might have multiple "." characters in it (I've prevented this possibility elsewhere in my code), then a test for this is needed.

It might be good to have a persistent option to automatically suppress the ".tif" extension (and perhaps all extensions) from window titles.

Bill Christens-Barry

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