How to determine availability of tools and plugins

Posted by Stein Rørvik on Nov 21, 2019; 8:15pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/How-to-determine-availability-of-tools-and-plugins-tp5022692.html

I have two questions:


  1.  Is there any way by macro or JavaScript to determine if a given tool(set) is loaded?
That is, available as icon(s) in the toolbar, but not necessarily active/selected.
I want to notify the user in a macro if a missing tool needs to be loaded.

  2.  Is there any way by macro or JavaScript to determine if a given plugin is available?
That is, available in the menus so that it can be called using run("<Plugin Name>").
I want to notify a user if a needed plugin is missing, with instructions where to get it.

Yes I know that 2) would be possible by parsing the output from List.setCommands;
I just wondered if there is a more direct way to do it. The toolset I want loaded for 1)
has some macros installed, but they do not appear in List.setCommands.

Stein

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