How to scroll to a location programmatically

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#1

Hi,

I would like to scroll to a particular location in an image window (in zoomed mode or when image doesn’t fit to frame) via macro. Preferentially in Jython/Python. Is this even possible?
Btw, I want to do this, while spots are selected in TrackMate. I guess I should avoid inserting ROI or Overlay.
Thanks

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#2

Hi @SarenT,

Something that seems to work:

imp = IJ.getImage()
# this tells the canvas to show the part of the image that 
# is 280 by 280 pixels wide, and starting at (200, 200)
imp.getCanvas().setSourceRect( Rectangle( 200, 200, 280, 280) )
imp.draw() # Have to tell the canvas to redraw itself

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The ImageCanvas class has functions that sound like they would do what you want, but they’re “protected”, meaning we can’t call them from the “outside”.

I thought that maybe doing imp.getCanvas().zoomOut(x, y) followed by imp.getCanvas().zoomIn(x, y), could do it, but it doesn’t behave the way I’d expect. (here imp is a variable of type ImagePlus).

Can’t dig into this further now, maybe someone else knows.
John

Edit: found an answer

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#3

For whom, who might visit this thread in the future. zoomIn seems to move relatively. To move to a specific spot, one needs to calculate the vector from current location.

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