[ImageJ-devel] Legacy Mode work

[Kevin W Eliceiri]

greatk

On 12/18/12, Johannes Schindelin  wrote:
> Hi Barry & Curtis,
> 
> with great satisfaction I report that the Legacy Mode branch has reached a
> beta stage. That is, I consider this functionality to be at a stage where
> we can include it in a beta version.
> 
> Sadly, I did not manage to think of a way to test this functionality
> automatically yet, mainly because most of it is purely in the GUI: images
> shown in IJ2 will be hidden and the IJ1 ImageWindows displayed when
> switching to the legacy mode, and vice versa when switching back.
> 
> It is all in the 'legacy' branch, and I would appreciate a good look-over
> by both of you.
> 
> The menu item it adds is in Help>Start ImageJ 1.x Legacy Mode, and when
> you switch to that mode, you will get a Help>Stop ImageJ 1.x Legacy Mode
> in the ImageJ 1.x GUI.
> 
> There is one commit that is reverted right away, this is the change I
> intended originally to make it possible to have multiple legacy services
> running in parallel. Alas, it interferes with normal operation; you would
> not be able to instantiate an ImagePlus and pass it to the legacy service,
> since your class loader and the legacy service's class loader would have
> incompatible versions of the ImagePlus *class*. The reason why I left it
> in was for education and to remember what did not work, so that I would
> keep thinking of better ways.
> 
> Once that legacy mode is in, and robust, I plan to integrate it into Fiji
> by adding the "Stop Legacy Mode" as a Help>Try ImageJ2 or some such.
> 
> Ciao & merry Christmas,
> Dscho
> 
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