Hi Barry, thanks for bringing the issue to my attention that my recent fix for Fiji (which now relies on ij-legacy to do the legacy patching in the hope that we can stabilize the code better that has been moved from fiji-compat to reconcile the Fiji and ImageJ2 legacy patches) broke the MacOSX-specific platform service startup.
The issue is that when dropping a file (in particular, an image file) onto the Fiji (or for that matter, ImageJ) icon, contrary to widespread belief, MacOSX does *not* pass the path of said file to the program to-be-started via the command-line. Instead, it sends a platform-specific message that applications are expected to consume in a special, MacOSX-specific handler. You could call that a Cupertino time tax. Now, ImageJ 1.x solves this by adding an ApplicationListener. It has to -- despite fact that the ApplicationListener is deprecated in very recent MacOSX versions -- to maintain backwards-compatibility with the last MacOSX versions supporting PowerPC-based computers. ImageJ2, in contrast, targets MacOSX 10.6 or newer, so it uses the new method -- which astonishingly does not allow adding ApplicationListeners, hence the problem you observed where the MacAdapter of ImageJ 1.x registering itself prevents ImageJ2 from starting up. The topic branch I started is designed to help the issue for 10.6 and newer by having a custom solution for the legacy mode: it registers an event listener and reacts upon the -- now platform-independent -- events. The only thing I need to change on that branch is to ensure that the MacOSX-specific part of the platform service starts up correctly and handles the MacOSX-specific event handling, delegating to the platform-independent event service of ImageJ2. After that, I still have to ascertain that things work correctly with MacOSX 10.5, the oldest MacOSX version I care to support with Fiji (10.4 is too old because Apple limited the Java versions available for that MacOSX version to Java 1.4 -- which is really, really too limiting, not to mention old and slow). In essence: I ask you to have a little more patience while I work out a fix. Ciao, Johannes _______________________________________________ ImageJ-devel mailing list ImageJ-devel@imagej.net http://imagej.net/mailman/listinfo/imagej-devel
