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Re: Double-clicking TIFF opens ImageJ but not the image with Java 8

Posted by Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] on Nov 11, 2016; 7:35pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Double-clicking-TIFF-opens-ImageJ-but-not-the-image-with-Java-8-tp5017568p5017570.html

> On Nov 10, 2016, at 6:59 PM, Norbert Vischer <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> when I double-click a tiff file in the MacOS Finder, ImageJ will be activated, i.e. the "Open With" setting is correct. However, that image is not opened. This always worked correctly when using Java 6.
>
> version:
> ImageJ 1.51h; Java 1.8.0_101 [64-bit]; Mac OS X 10.10.3; 12MB of 6222MB (<1%)
>
>
> Can anyone confirm this behaviour?

There is an upgraded distribution of ImageJ for OS X (bundled with Java 1.8.0_101) at

    https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/download.html

that should work better when using the "Open With” setting. The ImageJ.app bundle in the previous distribution did not have a CFBundleDocumentTypes key in the Info.plist file.

-wayne


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