Pushbuttons in ImageJ macro dialog

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#1

Dear Forum,

I wrote a macro which I’d like to make a bit easier to use for non-programming people.
The macro currently features a couple of lines where users have to define a few paths with data input and set a few numerical options. It kind of looks like this:

Input_file_1 = "...";
Input_file_2 = "...";
Input_file_3 = "...";

Option_1 = true;
Option_2 = 10:

What I’d like to do is to make this a bit more streamlined, and do these settings within a DialogBox. The filename inputs should have a textfield and a browse button next to them, and that’s where the trouble starts. I know the GenericDialog class in javascript and ImageJ macro, but these don’t provide an option for pushbuttons, let alone a possibility to link such a button to a OpenFileDialog.

Does anyone know of a way to do this in ImageJ macro or, if necessary in Jython or JavaScript. I’d like to avoid the latter as I’m not very familiar with it.

Thanks in advance!

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#2

As long as you use Fiji, I recommend using script parameters (independent of the scripting language you use) – which are a feature of ImageJ2, by the way.

This is how your macro would start:

#@ File Input_file_1
#@ File Input_file_2
#@ File Input_file_3

#@ Boolean (value=true) Option_1
#@ Integer (value=10) Option_2

… which will generate a dialog like this:

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#3

Love it. Much obliged!