Sam,

post this problem to the ImageJ list, and someone will probably answer.

if you get the Fiji distro of imageJ....
http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/
there is a built in script editor that will help you fix this stuff  
more easily,
the docs are on the same website as the download.
Fiji is just ImageJ, batteries included.

The script editor does the image J macro language as well as nicer  
modern scripting languages like python and ruby that are much more  
powerful than the macro lang.

cheers

Dan


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> Date:    Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:13:34 -0800
> From:    Sam Albers <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Batch processing of .oib
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> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to batch process some .oib files into .tiff files using  
> the
> hyperstack projection macro for imagej (
> http://bipl.umn.edu/files/hyperstack_projection.txt).
>
> The difference with my .oib files is that they aren't stacks and  
> thus z
> always equals zero. When I try to run the macros on one of my files I
> received the error message "This command requires a stack".
>
> If I comment out the following from the macro I received a message  
> that no
> images are open:
>
>    // run the max intensity z projection
>    //run("Z Project...", "projection=[Max Intensity]");
>
>    // after the projection the file is now a stack
>    // made up of the different channels
>    // seperate and save
>    run("Image Sequence... ", "format=TIFF save=[" + path2 + "]  
> save=[" +
> path2 + "]");
>
>
> What I would like to do is process a bunch of .oib files with 3  
> channels
> into a single composite .tiff image. However, when I look through  
> the macros
> it is not entirely obvious to me which part specifies that the files  
> must be
> a stack so I'm not sure which part to change.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry if this is extremely  
> simple.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> The reason that I am posting to this list rather than the imagej  
> list is
> because I first heard about the hyperstack projection macro on this  
> list.
>
> I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and Imagej 1.43b.
>
> Sam
>
>
>
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