For development, I use the
NetBeans
IDE*, which includes the
Swing GUI Builder.You can also download and install the NetBeans
Profiler for
diagnostics.
There is also the NetBeans™C/C++ Pack 5.5 which enables C/C++ coding and
compiling, but I have not yet used it for compiling the QCamJNI.c
code for CamAcqJ.
(A NetBeans Project for CamAcqJ development will
be published soon... )
* I
have not used Eclipse enough to say if it is better or worse than
NetBeans. But I can say that when I tried to try it, I found
it hard just to get my project running (I had been using
JBuilder). I found it much easier to get started with
NetBeans, and using the JBuilder project importer, was able to get
my code running very quickly. Overall, I think Eclipse and
NetBeans a comparable, but my personal preference is
NetBeans.
Using NetBeans 5.5 for ImageJ Plugin
Development
NetBeans 5.5 IDE
I have built a
NetBeans Project configured for ImageJ Plugin
Development.
ijNB package
Download You can download it from
here.
ijNB.zip (2.7M)
Create a directory for the project (say ijNB) and
extract the contents of the zip (using
subfolders).
Open the project with
NetBeans.
To Update to the Latest ImageJ Source
Code
(As of January 2, 2007, this package contains the
ImageJ source version 1.38f)
When new versions of ImageJ are
released:
Download ijXXXx-src.zip
Unzip it... this creates a folder:
source
Replace the ImageJ source code In the directory
where you installed ijNB
delete the \ij folder
File & Folders in
ijNB
Compiling
Plugins
Clean
Plugins
Compile
Plugins
These options are
available because the build file has been setup for
ImageJ...
Ant Build Files
build.xml:
|
<!-- Ant makefile for ImageJ
-->
<project name="ImageJ"
default="run">
<target
name="compile" description="Compile
everything.">
<!-- First, ensure the build directory exists.
-->
<mkdir dir="build" />
<!-- Build everything; add debug="on" to debug
-->
<javac srcdir="." destdir="build" optimize="on" source="1.3"
target="1.3" debug="on">
<!-- The plugins directory only needs to be
present at runtime, not at build time. -->
<exclude name="plugins/**" />
</javac>
</target>
<target
name="compilePlugins" description="Compile
plugins">
<javac srcdir="plugins" destdir="plugins" optimize="on"
source="1.3" target="1.3" debug="on"
classpath="./jiffy_.jar;./ij.jar;"/>
</target>
<target
name="build" depends="compile" description="Build
ij.jar.">
<!-- Copy needed files into the build directory.
-->
<copy file="IJ_Props.txt" todir="build"
/>
<copy file="images/microscope.gif" tofile="build/microscope.gif"
/>
<copy file="images/about.jpg" tofile="build/about.jpg"
/>
<copy file="plugins/MacAdapter.class"
tofile="build/MacAdapter.class" />
<copy todir="build/macros"><fileset
dir="macros"/></copy>
<copy todir="plugins">
<fileset dir="build">
<include name="*.class"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
<!-- Build ij.jar. -->
<jar jarfile="ij.jar" basedir="build"
manifest="MANIFEST.MF" />
</target>
<target
name="clean" description="Delete the build
files.">
<delete dir="build" />
<delete file="ij.jar" />
</target>
<target
name="cleanplugins" description="Delete plugins class
files.">
<delete>
<fileset dir="plugins">
<include name="*.class"/>
</fileset>
</delete>
</target>
<target name="run"
depends="build" description="Build and run
ImageJ.">
<java jar="ij.jar" fork="yes" />
</target>
<target name="zip"
depends="clean" description="Build
zrc.zip.">
<zip zipfile="../src.zip"
basedir=".."
includes="source/**"
/>
</target>
<target
name="javadocs" description="Build the
JavaDocs.">
<delete dir="../api" />
<mkdir dir="../api" />
<javadoc
sourcepath="."
packagenames="ij.*"
destdir="../api"
author="true"
version="true"
use="true"
windowtitle="ImageJ API">
</javadoc>
</target>
</project>
|
Compiling Individual
Plugins
Try to compile one of the .java files…
Nb prompts to create
ide-file-targets.xml
|
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project basedir=".."
name="ImageJ-IDE">
<!-- TODO: edit
the following target according to your needs
-->
<!-- (more info:
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/41/freeform-config.html#compilesingle)
-->
<target
name="compile-selected-files-in-plugins">
<fail unless="files">Must set property
'files'</fail>
<!-- TODO decide on and define some value for
${build.classes.dir} -->
<javac destdir="plugins" includes="${files}" source="1.5"
srcdir="plugins">
<classpath path="ij.jar;jiffy_jar;"/>
</javac>
</target>
</project>
|
Then you can compile
single files...
MacAdapter
MacAdapter.java
import com.apple.eawt.*;
depends on AppleJavaExtensions.jar
and MRJAdapter.jar
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