Confocal Assistant was very nice for Biorad files in particular and the 
things we tended to do with those images and stacks. But in addition to 
the 8+3 filename limitation it seemed to also have a restricted space 
allocated for the full path and filename string and if files were more 
than a few directories deep with typical names it seemed to fail to open 
the files - would show them in the browser but couldn't open; if the 
files were simply moved closer to the root level, it opened them fine.

Dale

Tina Carvalho wrote:
> Hey, that was what I was going to say! Confocal Assistant. Really liked
> it. Hated the short file names. 
> 
> Aloha,
> Tina
> 
>> Confocal Assistant by Todd Berlji would fall into this category. It was
>> developed for Win 3.1, had a nice GUI and was very popular. It will run uder
>> XP but only supports short file names. You can download a copy at:
>> http://www.ludwig.edu.au/confocal/Links.html
>>
>> Cheers
>> Stephen Cody
>>
>> 2009/4/23 Cory Quammen <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> Open-source and freely available software such as ImageJ, the Open
>>> Microscopy Environment, and Micro-Manager are examples of popular,
>>> actively-developed, and well-supported applications used within the
>>> microscopy community. Presumably other popular software tools useful
>>> in microscopy and image analysis have been created in the past, but
>>> are no longer developed or supported because the original development
>>> team lacks funding or interest. My question for the list is:
>>>
>>> What abandoned or neglected microscopy and image analysis/processing
>>> software have you used in the past and would love to use again if it
>>> were under active development, but currently do not use because it
>>> either does not run or does not do something you want it to? By active
>>> development, I mean that a team of developers would release updated
>>> versions of the software from time to time with new features and bug
>>> fixes.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your feedback,
>>> Cory
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cory Quammen
>>> Center for Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation
>>> (CISMM)
>>> Department of Computer Science
>>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>>> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~cquammen
>>>
> 
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