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Date:         Wed, 15 May 2002 22:37:03 -0400
Reply-To:     ImageJ Interest Group <[log in to unmask]>
Sender:       ImageJ Interest Group <[log in to unmask]>
From:         Wayne Rasband <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: Documentation of fields in ij.io.FileInfo?
In-Reply-To:  <[log in to unmask]>

At 03:52 PM 5/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm currently using both an ImageJ plug-in and a custom image processing
>app, written in Cocoa for OS X. In an effort to consolidate (and just to see
>if it can be done), I'd like to try to add ImageJ plug-in support to my OS X
>app*. Converting from the cocoa-native image reprsentation to an ImagePlus
>is pretty straight forward. Going the other way (ImagePlus->Cocoa), it seems
>the easiest way is to generate an ij.io.FileInfo object for the ImagePlus
>and initialize a Cocoa NSBitmapImageRep from the information in the FileInfo
>object. Can anyone point me to a description of the fields (and their legal
>values) in the FileInfo class (the JavaDoc for it doesn't have any info)? In
>particular, I'd like to figure out how to determine if a file is
>color/grayscale, if it's planar or interlaced, and what the pixel bit-depth
>is. Any pointers greatly appreciated.

There are some comments in the FileInfo.java source file but they don't show up in the JavaDoc API documentation because I accidentally left out the extra asterisk required by the JavaDoc program. To read the source, look up the FileInfo class in the browsable ImageJ source code at

     http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/developer/source/

-wayne

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