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Straub, Volko A. (Dr.) on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Simple-Neurite-Tracer-Connecting-existing-branches-tp5016529p5016679.html
Hi Curtis,
Thanks for the response. It is a bit of a shame that Simple Neurite
Tracer is not more actively maintained as I think that it does a great
job. Unfortunately, a lack of expertise, programming skills and time
prevents me from having a look at the actual code of the plugin (my
'programming' in ImageJ is restricted to writing Macros).
This is also the biggest hurdle for me at the moment as the commands
within the Simple Neurite Tracer plugin are not macro recordable, which
means that I can open the Simple Neurite Tracer from a macro, but have
to carry out all operations with Simple Neurite Tracer manually. I seem
to vaguely remember having read somewhere that it is possible to use
Java commands from a Macro (I know I should probably learn to use Java,
but ...), but looking around I couldn't find any real relevant
information anywhere. Is this correct and if that is possible, can you
point me to any relevant information? Could that be a way around to
access functions in a plugin from a macro that are not macro recordable?
Thanks,
Volko
On 16/06/2016 19:28, Curtis Rueden wrote:
> Hi Volko,
>
> My lab does not use this plugin, so I do not know the answers to your
> questions. I'm sorry to say that the Simple Neurite Tracer is largely
> unmaintained now, since the original author left the ImageJ community. The
> core Fiji team is able to review and accept suggested code changes proposed
> by others, but we unfortunately do not have time to fix bugs ourselves.
>
> If any developers in the community are familiar with the Simple Neurite
> Tracer and want to adopt it, please post on the ImageJ Forum—that would be
> most welcome indeed.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
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> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 1:11 AM, Volko Straub <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have used Simple Neurite Tracer to trace neuronal morphologies. During
>> the analysis of the traces, I realised that some of the lower order side
>> branches are not correctly connected to their parent branch (must have
>> forgotten to press the branch modifier keys during the tracing). Is there a
>> simple/convenient way to connect two existing branches within Simple
>> Neurite Tracer (I don't seem to be able to find that option), or perhaps an
>> option to edit the trace files created by Simple Neurite Tracer.
>> On a related note, I was wondering whether there is a simple way to access
>> the path parameters such as start and end coordinates and path length from
>> a macro. I know that I can export them as a csv file, but it seems a bit
>> clunky to first export them as a csv file and then read the parameters from
>> there.
>> Any ideas/suggestions would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Volko
>>
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