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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jan.eglinger@gmail.com" title="Jan Eglinger <jan.eglinger@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Jan Eglinger</span></a>
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title="REOPENED - eval("script", javascript) asks for downloading Javascript.jar when using Java 1.8"
href="http://fiji.sc/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1142">bug 1142</a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="REOPENED - eval("script", javascript) asks for downloading Javascript.jar when using Java 1.8"
href="http://fiji.sc/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1142#c3">Comment # 3</a>
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title="REOPENED - eval("script", javascript) asks for downloading Javascript.jar when using Java 1.8"
href="http://fiji.sc/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1142">bug 1142</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jan.eglinger@gmail.com" title="Jan Eglinger <jan.eglinger@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Jan Eglinger</span></a>
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<pre>While this might be intentional for ImageJ 1.x, I suggest that it be changed
for Fiji/ImageJ2:
- A local-only Javascript.jar will never be seen and updated by the
imagej-updater
- There's a fully functional Javascript engine provided by scijava scripting.
Introducing a second Javascript engine potentially leads to inconsistent
behaviour when running the same script from within the script editor, or from a
macro via `eval("script", "...")`.
- Input harvesting doesn't work with the supplied Javascript.jar. Running the
following code fails:
eval("script", "// @String name\n"
+ "// @OUTPUT String greeting\n"
+ "greeting = \"Hello, \" + name + \"!\";\n"
+ "");
showing the error:
ReferenceError: "name" is not defined. (line#3)
Re-opening this as "enhancement" then :)</pre>
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