Re: Retaining filenames when importing image sequence

Posted by Wayne Rasband-2 on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Retaining-filenames-when-importing-image-sequence-tp5021750p5021751.html

> On Feb 5, 2019, at 4:55 PM, Stein Rørvik <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> When importing images from a folder to a stack using Image Sequence, it is useful to have the filenames shown as the image subtitle.
> This is especially useful when importing the series at odd increments higher than 1.
> When importing as a virtual stack, the filenames are shown as the image subtitle.
> But when importing as a regular stack to memory, the image label (if present) is used instead of the filename.

This 1.52d regression is fixed in the latest image daily build (1.52m7).

-wayne

> I have a problem with this, as the images I want to import all have the same label;
> which is just the name of the third party software that created the images.
> It seems that this behaviour started in ImageJ version 1.52d, as it worked fine in 1.52c.
>
> If the behaviour is intended, it would be useful to have the option to turn it off in the Import -> Image Sequence dialog.
> There could for example be added a checkbox "Use file names as slice labels" or similar.
> This would be complementary to the "Use slice labels as file names" option in Save As -> Image Sequence.
> If this checkbox is unchecked, the image label (if present) is then used as subtitle instead, as there are many cases when this is useful.
>
> The macro below replicates the behaviour.
>
> Demo macro:
> ------------------------------
> run("Close All");
> outDir = getDirectory("temp") + "MyImageFolder/";
> if (!File.isDirectory(outDir)) File.makeDirectory(outDir);
> run("Bridge (174K)");
> strLabel = "Software: My Proprietary Software";
> setMetadata("Info", strLabel);
> saveAs("Tiff", outDir + "bridge_001.tif");
> saveAs("Tiff", outDir + "bridge_002.tif");
> saveAs("Tiff", outDir + "bridge_003.tif");
> saveAs("Tiff", outDir + "bridge_004.tif");
> saveAs("Tiff", outDir + "bridge_005.tif");
> run("Close All");
> run("Image Sequence...", "open=&outDir file=bridge sort");
> run("Image Sequence...", "open=&outDir file=bridge sort use");
> run("Tile");
>
> //1.52c: filename is used as subtitle in both virtual stack and normal stack
> //1.52k: label is used as subtitle in normal stack, filename is used in virtual stack
> ———————————————

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