I am using Fiji on a Windows system, and I want to automatically perform some processing on an image and save the modified image, all started from the command line. I might want to run in headless mode eventually, but I am happy for the UI to appear during development.
I think the key was to start Java and point it at the ImageJ jar file, rather than start ImageJ-win64.exe. I will need to edit the macro to run my plugin, or rewrite my plugin as a macro, but I hope that is a lesser problem!
Image-Line Software (commonly known as simply Image-Line) is a Belgian software company best known for its digital audio workstation program FL Studio[2] and related audio plugins such as Sytrus[3] and Harmor.[4] Image-Line was founded in 1994.[1] In 2007, Image-Line introduced Deckadance, a virtual DJ console application.[2] The company also produced EZGenerator, a template-based web editing program.[5]
Image-Line was founded by Jean-Marie Cannie and Frank Van Biesen, who after seven years of creating stock market software for Pavell Software, decided in 1992 to branch into video games. Their first product was an adult video game based on Tetris, which they then offered on floppy disks in the ad section of Computer Magazine. Around this time CD-ROM games such as The 7th Guest were becoming popular, inspiring Van Biesen and Cannie to begin working with Private, one of the larger producers of adult video games at the time. Private released multiple Image-Line CD-ROM games, including Private Prison and Private Castle.[6][7] The company officially adopted the name Image-Line in 1994.[6]
Around the time they released the games for Private, IBM launched the "Da Vinci" contest where the first prizes were color laptops. Image-Line, which at the time had little money, won the contest in the multimedia category after reworking one of their game environments to fit the contest criteria.[6][7]
Image-Line took an interest in Didier "Gol" Dambrin, the developer who won the overall Da Vinci contest as well as the Game category. They hired the 19-year-old to work for them, and his first game for the company was the game Private Investigator. [6][7] Dambrin's next project for Image-Line was the platform game Eat This,[8] a shoot 'em up game that involved killing aliens.[7]
Other Image-Line developers created products such as the invoicing program Fact2000 and E-OfficeDirect, a content-based web tool that would a precursor to their later product EZGenerator.[6] Image-Line also topped the Belgian game charts 4 years in a row with their CD version of the Belgian TV game show Blokken.[6][7]
In 1997 Dambrin gained an interest in music applications of the time such as Hammerhead and Rebirth 338, and developed a simple MIDI-only drum machine in an effort to merge the two products into a step sequencer that utilized both rows and steps. Dubbed FruityLoops 1.0, the program didn't fit with Image-Line's other product lines of the time. However, the demo version released in December 1997 became so popular that the number of downloads quickly overwhelmed the Image-Line servers.[6] To gather income to support their servers, Image-Line had Dambrin develop an EJay clone called FruityTracks. Image-Line then served as the program's OEM for Mattel. The program was released as Pro-DJ in France and the UK, and Radio 538 Music Machine in The Netherlands and Belgium.[6]
Image-Line continued to develop the FruityLoops application from a simple drum machine into a large and complex digital audio workstation. FruityLoops was eventually renamed FL Studio for branding purposes and to avoid a prolonged trademark dispute in the United States with Kelloggs.[6] FL Studio is now one of the most popular software production systems in the world, and Image-Line's flagship program.[2] A multitude of plug-ins have been developed by Image-Line to work with FL Studio, including synthesizers such as Sytrus and effects plugins such as Maximus and Edison.[2] In 2007 Image-Line released Deckadance, a DJ mixing program developed by programmer Arguru. Deckadance works as both a stand-alone program and as a FL Studio plugin.[9]
I was looking for a way to make vertical or horizontal lines across a whole image (or a selected region) and who knows, maybe this is already out there somewhere but I also wanted to play around with the CodeLab so i thought I would write it up myself.
So here is what it will create -
Pretty simple, and even with my limited knowledge of programming I was able to use CodeLab to come up with it. The effect has two slider bars. The first sets the width between the lines (defaults to 10, and I maxed it out at 100, minimum is one but that actually just paints the whole page one color). It uses whatever your primary color selected is as the color of the lines. The second slider is just to determine whether you want Vertical or Horizontal lines (1 for vertical, 2 for horizontal).
Here is the source code in case anyone was interested - like I said it is a pretty simple code but it might help some new people see how CodeLab works. Thanks to BoltBait for his tutorials on writing CodeLab plugins as well, they were very helpful. Looking at the code below, all it does is check to see if you want it horizontal or vertical. Then it goes through every pixel and calculates whether that pixel is a factor of the width that you have set. If it is, it writes to that pixel, if not it does nothing.
Well, that's it - my first plugin.
Here is the link to the dll -
Also, this effect will appear in the Render submenu in PdN. I don't know about you guys but I wish all the effects were subgrouped in some way as there are a ton of them now and they go off the page.
If anybody is interested, go to my Diagonal Lines Plugin thread page 2. I've got the script that allows different angles for the lines. The problem is that I cannot compile a 4-slider plugin with Codelab. It would be very helpful if anybody can help me create the interface. (Then, instead of having 1000 plugins about lines, you only need 1)
Now, start the plugin. If there was more than one other image with an active line selection, you would be asked which one is the template. Since there is only one, the plugin does not ask, but starts to work right away. The result looks like this:
Coming to FL Studio for the first time from another DAW can be a slightly jarring experience. While the application has come on a long way from its early days as a basic loop sequencer - it easily holds its own against rival DAWs on the feature front - it still shows its roots in its layout and work flow. Whereas the bulk of mainstream DAWs see users work across a single timeline or workspace, FL Studio splits creative, mixing and arrangement duties into independent sections, each with its own UI window.
The main arrangement space is known as the Playlist, which is used to sequence patterns of audio, MIDI and automation which are created in the Channel Rack. This latter section is also used for selecting instruments and plugins as well as routing audio to the Mixer. Each instrument in the Rack gets its own simple X0X-style step sequencer, which can be expanded to a pop-out piano roll for more complex sequencing duties.
Workspace aside, FL Studio is a very well-equipped DAW. The selection of included effects plugins is excellent, with highlights including the Convolver convolution reverb and a strong selection of delay tools. New users will find a lot to like in the great sequencing and MIDI creation touches too, such as the inspirational Riff Machine, and the neat Graph Editor - which makes a welcome return for this version, having been dropped from FL Studio 12. These are just a few features from a comprehensive list though.
On that subject, flexible consolidation capabilities are another highlight of this version. This gives users several options for bouncing instruments or samples down to single audio les. There are options to bounce down full Playlist tracks, selections from the Playlist or individual Patterns from the Rack.
There are further tweaks to the Playlist too. For one thing, the number of available tracks has increased with this version, from an already fairly generous 199 to a maximum of 500. To help keep those masses of tracks getting too cluttered, you can now hide track groups.
FL Studio also now presents a visual representation of audio when recording into the Playlist. On the recording front, when recording in looped mode, multiple takes are now automatically copied to new tracks and grouped, which is handy for keeping track of multiple variations.
Multiple time signature options for both the Playlist and individual Patterns is another welcome new feature. This allows users to add markers to the Playlist which initiate a shift in time signature. You can also set time signatures for individual Patterns, and even change timings mid Pattern using the Piano Roll. Patterns can be set to follow time sig changes marked on the Playlist too.
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Once you interact with any of the inputs in the background step or hover over that areaof the plugin, the live visualization in the 2D spectrum viewer will change to show the center(dotted line) and edges (solid lines) of the background region(s). The 1D representation of thebackground will also be visualized in the 1D spectrum viewer (thin, solid line).
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