Hi, On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Mark Hammons wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Johannes Schindelin < > johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Mark Hammons wrote: > > > > > So, I was curious, how do I start imagej in headless mode when i'm > > > embedding it into another program? > > > > To put that into context: we just met at the EuBIAS conference (Mark > > is a developer of OpenMole, a software facilitating grid computing). > > The question was how to call ImageJ1 macros in a headless manner. > > > > In principle, after calling net.imagej.DefaultLegacyService.preinit() > > (contained in ij-legacy.jar [*1*]) you can call IJ.runMacro(String) or > > IJ.runMacroFile(String) [sic!] to evaluate macros even in headless > > mode: the preinit() method will make sure that the headless mode is > > activated, which lets quite a few plugins run in headless mode. > > > > When chatting to you (how about Cc:ing your colleagues into this > > conversation?), it became clear that you will need support for OSGi > > and are willing to help us with that... Great! Thank you! > > > > It also became apparent that you will need to call ImageJ 1.x macros > > in a massively parallel way. So I promised that I will implement a > > function that lets you call ImageJ 1.x macros via the LegacyService > > that uses separate class loaders so that the ImageJ 1.x "instances" > > cannot interfere with each other. > > > > Hopefully I will be able to show you tangible code at most in a few > > weeks. Feel free to bug me if you do not hear any progress record > > from me in the next few days! > > > > In the longer run, you will want to run scripts and macros via the > > ScriptService of ImageJ2, but for that, I think we will need our > > "macro" recorder which is still a bit off in the future. > > > > Footnote *1*: To be precise, "ij-legacy.jar" is my shortcut to "the > > artifact of the Maven project hosted on http://maven.imagej.net/ > > (releases are in content/repositories/releases/, snapshots in > > .../snapshots/) identified by the GA net.imagej:ij-legacy. Currently, > > the latest release version is 2.0.0-beta-7.3 while the snapshot > > version 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT is "released" continously by our trusty > > Jenkins. > > Ok, I'll give this a try in a few days. I'm going on vacation :) Enjoy your vacation! Dscho _______________________________________________ ImageJ-devel mailing list ImageJ-devel@imagej.net http://imagej.net/mailman/listinfo/imagej-devel
