Re: installing macro properly?

Posted by Herbie on Jun 10, 2020; 5:17pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/installing-macro-properly-tp5023470p5023472.html

Good day Kenneth!

Many words...

ImageJ-1 style:

1.
Usually macros should reside in the folder named "macros" of your
ImageJ-1 installation. I think this follows a certain logic.

2.
If you prefer to see your macros in the subfolder "macros" of the
plugins folder of your ImageJ-1 installation, then just put it there and
make sure that the macro name has an underscore. The macro will then
appear in the Plugins-menu of ImageJ-1 in a submenu named "macros".

I have no good recommendation for the installation, if you don't want to
drop the macro-file in the dedicated folders.

Regards

Herbie

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Am 10.06.20 um 18:57 schrieb Kenneth Sloan:

> I apologize for being slow - but the documentation is confusing me.  So, I'll pester you with a direct question about my specific problem.
>
> I have a file, "foo_macro.ijm" which looks like:
>
> macro "foo_macro" { ...stuff... }
>
> My usual routine with Java plugins is to use a "plugins.config" file in the .jar file.  Typically, I drag&drop the .jar file, select a subfolder under plugins (to keep all my plugins in one place - mostly so it is easy to DELETE all of them when required), and restart FIJI.  Works perfectly.  The plugins.config file always looks like this:
>
> Plugins>category,"pretty name",className
>
> where "category" is a sub-menu under Plugins where I want "pretty name" to appear, and
> "className" is the name of the Java Class.
>
> I want to do something similar with this macro, but...
>
> drag&drop of foo_macro.ijm does not install the macro - instead it brings me into the editor
> so, OK - I'll use Plugins>Install Plugin.  Note that I have rarely used this method, so I may completely mis-understand it.
>
> That works about as expected, except:
>
> a) there seems to be no way to select a subfolder of plugins - foo_macro.ijm is installed in plugins.
>      I would like to put it in plugins/subFolder.
> b) I can't seem to get the macro to show up with a sub-menu - it shows up at the bottom, along with Debug and Sandbox and others.  I would like it to show up as Plugins>subMenu>foo_macro.
>
> Following the documentation, I tried:
>
> macro "<subMenu> foo_macro" { ...stuff... }
>
> but this had no effect.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> I think I can install the macro manually in a sub-folder (but I don't like to do that myself, and I definitely don't want to tell my colleagues to try to do this themselves).
>
> I have no clue how to get the macro to show up as Plugins>subMenu>foo_macro.
>
> My main sources so far have been the online tutorial and the example macro "MacroSubMenus.txt" - but clearly I'm not understanding them.
>
> Clues?
>
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