Sure thing Johannes. Thanks.
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Johannes Schindelin <schinde...@wisc.edu>wrote: > 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 >
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