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Re: image - convert does not do anything

Posted by Timo Pietilä on Oct 15, 2020; 5:55am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/image-convert-does-not-do-anything-tp5024047p5024063.html

Thanks, that removed the menu item.

What did it do when it still was there? My client has used it before, so
I might need to tell her how to do the same without that menu item.

Timo Pietilä

On 15.10.2020 7.14, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The "Image > Convert" command was an obsolete experimental command (one
> of several) included with ImageJ Ops. I removed the following such
> commands from the menus:
>
> * Image > Convert
> * Image > Convolve
> * Image > Threshold > Project
> * Image > Threshold > Apply Threshold
>
> Run Help > Update... (not Help > Update ImageJ) to get the updated
> imagej-ops library.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
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> Have you tried the Image.sc Forum? https://forum.image.sc/ 
> <https://forum.image.sc/>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:41 AM Timo Pietilä <[hidden email]
> <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks, this helps quite a lot. Now I at least have a direction
>     where to
>     find additional info. Previously had no idea how to proceed further and
>     not just bang my head to the wall.
>
>     Timo Pietilä
>
>     On 14.10.2020 17.00, Herbie wrote:
>      > Timo,
>      >
>      > as Gabriel tells us, there is a menu item "Convert" that, however is
>      > part of Fiji, not ImageJ. Please note that opposite to the claim
>     that
>      > Fiji is just ImageJ, this is not the case...
>      >
>      > I can't find any description of the functionality of this
>     command, but
>      > here are the source and the coder that may be contacted for further
>      > details.
>      >
>     <https://github.com/imagej/imagej-ops/tree/imagej-ops-0.45.5/src/main/java/net/imagej/ops/convert
>     <https://github.com/imagej/imagej-ops/tree/imagej-ops-0.45.5/src/main/java/net/imagej/ops/convert>>
>
>      >
>      >
>      > Regards
>      >
>      > Herbie
>      >
>      > :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>      > Am 14.10.20 um 15:40 schrieb Gabriel Landini:
>      >> Hi,
>      >> In Fiji, that "convert" command is not part of IJ, but part of
>     Fiji's
>      >> imagej-
>      >> ops0.45.5,jar
>      >>
>      >> If you type "convert" in the box under the menu, you can look at
>     the
>      >> source
>      >> code which takes you to
>      >>
>      >>
>     https://github.com/imagej/imagej-ops/blob/imagej-ops-0.45.5/src/main/java/net/
>     <https://github.com/imagej/imagej-ops/blob/imagej-ops-0.45.5/src/main/java/net/>
>
>      >>
>      >> imagej/ops/commands/convert/ConvertImgPlus.java
>      >>
>      >> You probably have to contact the authors of that file.
>      >>
>      >> There is another "Convert..." under the Process>Batch menu. Perhaps
>      >> your user
>      >> is intending to use that one?
>      >>
>      >> Cheers
>      >>
>      >> Gabriel
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 14:14:45 BST you wrote:
>      >>> No, there is just plain convert at the four bottom items at
>     image -menu.
>      >>> That's the one she tried to use and which gives that error. I can
>      >>> replicate the error in my own work machine.
>      >>>
>      >>> I'm at home now, so can't remember what the other three were,
>     however
>      >>> none of those are documented in documentation.
>      >>>
>      >>> In fact that menu is quite a bit longer than the one described in
>      >>> documentation. More than four items are missing from there.
>      >>>
>      >>> When I get to work machine I can post what it looks like in my
>     machine.
>      >>>
>      >>> Timo Pietilä
>      >>>
>      >>> On 14.10.2020 12.37, Herbie wrote:
>      >>>> Suggestion:
>      >>>>
>      >>>> Perhaps your client uses the ImageJ-menu command:
>      >>>>
>      >>>> Process >> Batch >> Convert...
>      >>>>
>      >>>> that is described in the ImageJ user-guide (subsection
>      >>>> "29.12.2 Convert…"):
>      >>>>
>     <https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/docs/guide/146-29.html#toc-Subsection-29.12
>     <https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/docs/guide/146-29.html#toc-Subsection-29.12>>
>      >>>>
>      >>>> Regards
>      >>>>
>      >>>> Herbie
>      >>>>
>      >>>> Am 14.10.20 um 06:48 schrieb Timo Pietilä:
>      >>>>> Hello everyone.
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> I'm not actual ImageJ user but IT support and I have a client
>     that is
>      >>>>> trying to convert one image to another form using fiji
>     imageJ, and
>      >>>>> process should be as easy as
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> file - open,
>      >>>>> image - type - 8-bit,
>      >>>>> image -convert.
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> However result is "A ImgPlus is required but none exist"
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> According to her everything worked just about two months ago.
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> I have hard time finding what that "convert" even should be
>     doing, it
>      >>>>> isn't in documentation, no youtube tutorials even have it in
>     that menu
>      >>>>> so I really don't have any clue how to debug this problem.
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> I'm basically giving myself a real crash course of ImageJ at
>     this
>      >>>>> point.
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> Any ideas, clue,s anything?
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> Timo Pietilä
>      >>>
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