Writing ImageJ Macros a better way

Posted by Alex-2 on Jun 19, 2018; 10:29pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Writing-ImageJ-Macros-a-better-way-tp5020818.html

All,

I know there's lots of information on the web but it seems very scattered and unclear what's considered "best practice."
I've been writing ImageJ macros for some time using the ImageJ Macro language and the built in script editor.  Obviously this has it's limitations.  The scope of the Macro Language itself isn't really a problem but some of my macros have become so complex that debugging and changing them is very difficult. 

I'm pretty handy at Python, R, and C but don't have any experience with Java.   Also, I'm working on MacOS.
I've tired the Eclipse ImageJ plugin (https://github.com/Bio7/EclipseImageJ1Plugin) but it leaves a lot to be desired as it's very clunky and still only seems to show variables and their values in ImageJ itself.

What would you consider the best way to write ImageJ macros in an IDE that offers real debugging functionality?  What's the best step-by-step resource for learning out more advanced ImageJ macro programming techniques?
ThanksAlex

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