Re: [Ij-plugins-users] IJ 'finding' VolumeRendringPlugin

[Jarek S. <js...@us...>]

keesh wrote:

> A very simple question...
>  
> I downloaded and successfully built ij-VTK using JBuilderX.
> JBuilder's CVS, JUnit, and external libs support seem good.
>  
> How do I get Image/J "to find" the VolumeRenderingPlugin located
> very deep under the plugins folder?
> In other words there is not an underscore in "VolumeRenderingPlugin" and
> also its located in 
> J:\source\java\ij-VTK\ImageJ\plugins\net\sf\ij_plugins\vtk\prototype\volume.

When plugins are packaged in a JAR there is no need for underscore 
convention. Actual plugins are identified in the plugins.config file 
which is used by ImageJ to assign plugins to menu entries. This helps to 
keep plugins within related packages rather than in root (default) 
package. You need to have ImageJ v.1.31s or newer for this to work 
properly. The Ant build file can automatically create a JAR for ij-VTK 
including plugins.config (run target 'jar' to do it). You can also use 
target 'run' to build the ij-VTK JAR and start ImageJ to test the 
plugins. Note that any properties defined in Ant build file can be 
overwritten in a file build.properties, so you can define there location 
of vtk.jar or a directory where to put ij-VTK JAR before running. There 
is an example of that in the build-properties-sample file.

I have, target 'jar' setup to automatically run every time I start 
ImageJ from my IDE, so I can easily test the plugins by hand or debug 
the code within plugins. I do not have JBuilder installed on my computer 
so I am not sure what would be the steps to set it up there, but it 
looks that JBuilder X has a nice integration with Ant and that it should 
be possible there too.

Jarek