Icy window as a component

[Masoud Ramuz]

Hello Icy community,

Does anyone know of a way to access the Icy internal area that holds the sequences as a component? If not maybe the whole window instead?

I'm trying to capture a screenshot of the sequences and their organisations (just to accompany exported data with an image of cells and final graphs). See example code:

void captureComponent(Component component) {
    Rectangle rect = component.getBounds();
 
    try {
        String format = "png";
        String fileName = component.getName() + "." + format;
        BufferedImage captureImage =
                new BufferedImage(rect.width, rect.height,
                                    BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        component.paint(captureImage.getGraphics());
 
        ImageIO.write(captureImage, format, new File(fileName));
 
        System.out.printf("The screenshot of %s was saved!", component.getName());
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        System.err.println(ex);
    }
}

I've tried to use the SequenceActionFrame, using the getExternalFrame, getFrame, getIcyExternalFrame, getIcyInternalFrame and getInternalFrame all resulted in nullpointerexceptions.

Cheers,

Masoud




[Robert Smith]

Hello Masoud,

ICY has a tool called ImageJ. In that tool there is a plugin folder, go to Plugins > Utilities > Capture screen (or ) Capture Delayed and either of these will capture the screen shot for you. The 'capture delayed' will wait for 10 seconds, or however long you wish to set it for before capture.  Use it as often as you want.

Good Luck and Good Day,

Bob

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[Stephane]

Hi Masoud,

I guess you mean "programmatically" ?

Sequence are displayed in "Viewer" and you can get a Sequence representing current view :

// get viewer displaying the sequence
viewer = sequence.getFirstViewer();
// get rendered view as sequence (the boolean parameter allow to specify if we want current view size or original image size)
seqView = viewer.getRenderedSequence(true, null);
// save the result
Saver.save(seqView, new File(sequence.getName() + "_screenshot.png"));

That should do what you want :)

Best,

- Stephane

[Masoud Ramuz]

Dear Stephane,

Yes I did, I should have clarified.

Furthermore what I meant was something like this:

Which is useful because as you can see, there's a lot going on and this would let people looking back at their data get a quick view of how the situation looked (i.e. if the experiment failed for one or more cells).

While what you posted wasn't what I was looking for, it is still interesting to know about and looking into it let me find my answer:

import icy.main.Icy;
        //Get the Icy window
        MainInterface MI = Icy.getMainInterface();
        //Use with the method I posted above to screenshot full window..
        captureComponent(MI.getMainFrame());
        //..or just the area that holds the internal frames
        captureComponent(MI.getDesktopPane());

Result:

Thanks for the help,

Masoud

[Stephane]

Hi Masoud,

Oh indeed it was completely different from what i imagined. Glad you got it to work using another method !

Best,

- Stephane