[ImageJ-devel] [fiji-devel] ImageJ 2.0.0-beta5 released

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Stephan Saalfeld wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Albert Cardona wrote:
> >
> >> 2012/10/24 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin at gmx.de>:
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Albert Cardona wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> 2012/10/23 Barry DeZonia <bdezonia at gmail.com>:
> >> >
> >> > Note that "IJ" in ImageJ2 scripting refers to the current ImageJ
> >> > context, i.e. an instance of imagej.ImageJ. It does *not* refer to the
> >> > static class ij.IJ -- which would not make too much sense anyway,
> >> > because we are most likely not able to support too many of that class'
> >> > functions.
> >>
> >> the ij.jar is a jar and is included in ImageJ2. I understand it may be
> >> desirable to intercept some of its functionality such as IJ.log and
> >> redirect it, but other than that, being a jar, one would except
> >> beanshell and other scripting languages to load and use jars in the
> >> classpath as usual.
> >
> >As in plain Java, if you have a local variable of the same name as a class
> >you imported, the local variable takes precedence. You can always access
> >the class by the full class name: ij.IJ.log("Hello, Albert");
> >
> >I am open to suggestions what might be a better name for the current
> >ImageJ context (I considered "context", "this", "ImageJ", which all clash
> >with existing entities even worse than "IJ"). It is still early enough to
> >change things without much of a hassle.
>
> What about IJ2?

I am torn. I really like it for its simplicity but I do not want to
ingrain the "2" too much into our design.

Ciao,
Dscho