Re: open and runMacro commands do not support all forward slashes on Windows

Posted by Wayne Rasband-2 on Feb 16, 2017; 4:02pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/open-and-runMacro-commands-do-not-support-all-forward-slashes-on-Windows-tp5018113p5018116.html

On Feb 16, 2017, at 5:42 AM, Stein Rørvik <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I am using the latest version of ImageJ 1.51j with Java 1.6.24 on Windows 7 64-bit, and am having this issue:
>
> ImageJ seems a bit confused about the forward and backslash syntax of files.
> In general one would expect it to accept both forward and double backward slashes and combinations of those.
>
> Mixing forward and double backslashes generally works as expected in ImageJ, EXCEPT when all slashes are forward.

This bug is fixed in the latest ImageJ daily build (1.51k9).

-wayne

> To illustrate the problem:
>
> This works:
> open("C:\\Users\\Engineer\\Macro Open File Test.tif");
>
> And this works:
> open("C:\\Users\\Engineer/Macro Open File Test.tif");
>
> And this also works:
> open("C:\\Users/Engineer/Macro Open File Test.tif");
>
> But this does not work:
> open("C:/Users/Engineer/Macro Open File Test.tif");
>
>
> Equivalently,
>
> This works:
> runMacro("C:\\Users\\Engineer\\Macro Run File Test.ijm");
>
> And this works:
> runMacro("C:\\Users\\Engineer/Macro Run File Test.ijm");
>
> And this also works:
> runMacro("C:\\Users/Engineer/Macro Run File Test.ijm");
>
> But this does not work:
> runMacro("C:/Users/Engineer/Macro Run File Test.ijm");
>
>
> Is this a bug?  Or a Java issue?
>
> I want to be able to the all forward slash syntax, as ImageJ in my workflow would called by an external
> application (using the -exec command line option) which only uses forward slashes.
>
> Also note: When saving files, this problem does not occur.
> All these three syntaxes work as expected:
>
> saveAs("Tiff", "C:\\Users\\Engineer\\Macro Save File Test.tif");
> saveAs("Tiff", "C:\\Users/Engineer/Macro Save File Test.tif");
> saveAs("Tiff", "C:/Users/Engineer/Macro Save File Test.tif");
>
> The windows API in general accepts both forward and backward slashes and combination of those, even if backslash is default.
>
> Stein

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