Re: Forward slashes in filepath get included in image title for imported stacks

Posted by Wayne Rasband-2 on Aug 20, 2018; 2:42pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Forward-slashes-in-filepath-get-included-in-image-title-for-imported-stacks-tp5021095p5021098.html

> On Aug 20, 2018, at 6:22 AM, Stein Rørvik <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> There are many reasons to prefer the use of forward slashes in filepaths on Windows.
> Mostly because you often need to escape the slashes (\\) and sometimes
> even double escape them (\\\\) to get things working correctly.
> Especially when passing strings to other scripts or applications.
> Forward slashes are supported by the Windows filesystem so they usually work fine
> when passing commands to other applications, and makes programming much easier.
>
> However, the run("Image Sequence... command produces an incorrect image title
> including the full file path when using forward slashes.

This bug is fixed in the latest ImageJ daily build (1.52f27).

-wayne

> One would expect the image title to consist of only the last subpath.
> I am not sure of this is a pure Windows issue or not since I only use Windows.
>
> This behaviour is the same with both real and virtual stacks.
> Here is a macro demonstrating this issue:
>
> print("\\Clear");
> run("Close All");
> dir = getDirectory("temp");
>
> //create a sample tiff virtual stack
> run("T1 Head (2.4M, 16-bits)");
> File.makeDirectory(dir + "t1-head/");
> run("Image Sequence... ", "format=TIFF save="+ dir + "t1-head/");
> close();
>
> print("Folder:" + dir);
> //outputs 'C:\Users\steinr\AppData\Local\Temp\'
> run("Image Sequence...", "open=" + dir + "t1-head/ sort");
> print("Title:" + getTitle);
> //outputs 't1-head'
> //the image is correctly made from the last subpath
>
> //replace backslashes with forward slashes to avoid double escaping
> dir = replace(dir, "\\", "/");
> print("Folder:" + dir);
> //outputs 'C:/Users/steinr/AppData/Local/Temp/'
>
> run("Image Sequence...", "open=" + dir + "t1-head/ sort");
> print("Title:" + getTitle);
> //outputs 'C:/Users/steinr/AppData/Local/Temp/t1-head'
> //the image title now incorrectly includes the full path
>
> I am using daily build ImageJ 1.52f on Windows 7 64-bit.
>
> Stein

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