Part V. Menu Commands

The Plugins▷↓ menu can become easily cluttered after the installation of several plugins. Since Plugins▷ reflects the hierarchy of directories in ImageJ/plugins/ (up to two subfolders), submenus (i.e., subfolders) can be created to keep the menu organized, preventing it from running off the bottom of the screen. E.g, to move the EPS Writer plugin into a Plugins▷Input-Output▷PDF▷ submenu, one would move EPS_Writer.class into ImageJ/plugins/Input-Output/PDF/. In addition, checking the Move isolated plugins to Misc. menu checkbox in Edit▷Options▷Misc…↓ will compact the menu list by moving to Plugins▷Miscellaneous▷ all the plugins with only one command that try to install themselves in submenus. Note that external plugins can be installed in any of the ImageJ menus. This is the case of plugins packaged in JAR files containing a configuration file (plugins.config) specifying the location of the new commands implemented by the plugin. You can rename, reorganize or move commands implemented by external plugins by editing their plugins.config file as described on the JAR demo documentation page. If you don’t know in which menu a plugin has been registered, use Show full information in the command Finder (Plugins▷Utilities▷Find Commands… [l]↓) to find out the location of the installed .jar files. With Fiji↑, Scripts↑ and Macros↑ can be registered in any menu by saving into Fiji.app/plugins/Scripts/menu name/submenu name/. E.g., a certain macro (.ijm file) saved in Fiji.app/plugins/Scripts/File/Import/ is registered in the File▷Import▷↓ submenu.