1.52h 16 October 2018

• Plot enhancements, thanks to Michael Schmid:
  • "Save" in plot windows has moved into a new Data>> menu, which includes two additional items: (1) Add from Plot (takes a PlotObject, e.g. data set, text, etc., from a different plot) and (2) Add from Table (adds data from a "Results" table).
  • Values in tables can be be plotted directly using the contextual menu or the Results>Plot command in "Results" tables.
  • Added the Separated Bar type, a bar graph with some space between the columns. For an example, run Help>Examples>JavaScript>Plot Styles.
  • Histogram-like "Bar" plots also work with non-equidistant points along x.
  • Connected Circles fill the circles with the secondary color (= line color), if that color is given and not null.
  • Improved the code for filling bars and "filled" curves.
  • For "Bar" and "Separated Bar", the base line of the plot is y = 0 if the values differ by more than a factor of 2.
• Added the Help>Examples>Plots>Plot Styles and ...JavaScript>Plot Styles examples.
• The Edit>Selection>Create Mask command works with overlays created by the Brush and Pencil tools.
• Added a "Help" button to the Brush and Pencil tool dialog boxes.
• Thanks to Gabriel Landini and Jerome Mutterer, the text tool now creates an "Enter text..." selection when you click (without dragging) on an image and there is no existing selection.
• Thanks to Gabriel Landini, the "Show on all slices" option (was "Show all") now appears in both the point and multi-point tool dialogs.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, the Analyze>Tools>Synchronize Windows tool now supports use of the "+" and "-" keys for synchronized zooming when the "Image scaling" option is enabled.
• Thanks to Lorenzo Cangiano, added a "Points" column to the Image>Overlay>List Elements table.
• Added the Plot.setStyle() macro function. For an example, run Help>Examples>Plots>Plot Styles.
• Added the IJ.exit() method, which aborts JavaScripts.
• Thanks to Bio7, fixed a bug that caused images to turn black when assigned an ImageRoi created by the Brush or Pencil tools.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed bugs that caused File>Open Next to sometimes fail when opening images of dissimilar types.
• Thanks to Michael Schmid, fixed several bugs in the Image>Adjust>Threshold tool, mostly related to 32-bit images.
• Thanks to Michael Cammer and Michael Schmid, fixed a bug that caused the "Propagate to the other n channels of this image" option of the "Set" command in the "B&C" tool to not work as expected.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik and Michael Schmid, fixed a bug that caused an image pasted into a zoomed image to be incorrectly positioned if the pasted image was equal or larger in size than the target image.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed bugs that caused scale bars to be incorrectly positioned on large images and macros to alter default scale bar dialog settings.
• Fixed a bug that caused keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out, as well as other shortcuts, to not work when a text selection was active.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused right-justified text added to an overlay by the Overlay.drawString() macro function to not be displayed correctly.
• Thanks to "hwada", fixed bugs that caused the ImagePlus.setImage(ImagePlus) method to sometimes not work as expected.
• Thanks to Nathalie Houssin, fixed a bug that caused the Make Substack command to throw an exception when used with hyperstacks opened by the OlympusViewer plugin.
• Fixed bugs in the ImagePlus.setStack() method.
• Thanks to Michael Schmid, fixed a bug that caused the "Show All" button to not work as expected with point selections.
• Thanks to Lorenzo Cangiano, fixed a bug that caused programmatically generated overlays of PointRois on stacks to be not shown when saved and reopened.
• Thanks to Robert Haase, fixed a bug that could cause the PolygonRoi.getTracedPerimeter() method to throw a NullPointerException.
• Thanks to Hyung-song Nam and Curtis Rueden, fixed a bug that caused keyboard shortcuts to not work with the "Channels" tool.
• Thanks to Gilles Carpentier, fixed a 1.52f regression that caused the Edit>Selection>Create Mask command to not work as expected if the image had both an roi and an overlay.
• Thanks to Norbert Vischer, fixed a 1.52g regression that caused multi-channel images to lose color table and display range information after being cropped and saved.
• Thanks to Stephen Royle, fixed a 1.52h regression that caused the Image>Transform>Rotate 90 Degrees Right (or Left) command to not work as expected with composite images.

1.52g 16 September 2018

• A text selection in an overlay can be deleted by alt-clicking on it and pressing backspace+delete (on Windows) or command+delete (on Macs).
• Fixed a bug that caused polygon and polyline selections to lose properties like color, line width and name when a point is added by shift-clicking on an existing point.
• Thanks to Dave Mason, fixed a bug that caused the File>Import>URL command to not correctly open Hyperstacks.
• Thanks to Volko Straub, fixed a 1.52f regression that caused getDirectory("") on Windows to return a string ending in "/" instead of the expected "\".

1.52f 7 September 2018

• Thanks to Norbert Vischer, added the Plot.addHistogram() macro function, which plots a histogram from an array (example).
• Thanks to Norbert Vischer, any currently running macro is aborted when running an installed macro from the Plugins>Macros menu or the editor's Macros menu.
• Thanks to Michael Schmid, added the "Error Function" [y=a+b*erf((x-c)/d)] curve fit option and the ij.util.IJ.Math.erf(x) method (example).
• The Edit>Selection>Create Mask command works with line selections and overlays.
• The "Black background" setting defaults to 'true'.
• Thanks to Anna Povolna, the "Open all files in folder" and "Use virtual stack" options in the File>Import>raw dialog can be used at the same time.
• Thanks to 'Sethur', ImageJ no longer sorts imported DICOM stacks by series number (tag 0020,0011) if "Sort images numerically" is not checked in the File>Import>ImageSequence dialog. Also added a recordable 'noMetaSort' option to the options string of the FolderOpener.open(dir,options) method.
• Thanks to 'Alan', added the createThresholdMask() and createRoiMask() methods to the ImagePlus class. These methods are recorded when using the Edit>Selection>Create Mask command (JavaScript example).
• Added the recordable Raw.open(), Raw.openAll() and Raw.openAllVirtual() methods (JavaScript example).
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, added the DicomTools.getTagName(tag) method.
• Thanks to Christian Tischer, fixed bugs in the RoiManager.add(ImagePlus,Roi,int) method than caused it to not behave as expected if the ROI name was not null.
• Thanks to Norbert Vischer, fixed bugs that caused the Edit>Cut and Analyze>Set Scale commands to not set the 'changes' flag.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused the Overlay.drawString macro function to ignore the justification set by the setJustification() function.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused output of the Overlay.drawString() function to be lost when text is added using Overlay.addSelection().
• Thanks to Lorenzo Cangiono, fixed a bug that caused selections pasted into images to not be saved.
• Thanks to Mahmoudi Sidi Ahmed, fixed a bug that caused the Analyze>Calibrate command to not work with signed 16-bit images.
• Thanks to Menelaos Symeonides, fixed an ROI Manager bug that caused the stack position to be ignored when measuring renamed ROIs.
• Thanks to Ron DeSpain, fixed a bug that caused attempts to add to (by holding shift key down) and subract from (by holding alt key down) elliptical selections to fail.
• Thanks to Ron DeSpain, fixed a bug that caused the Window>Tile command to overlap the "ImageJ" window with image titles.
• Thanks to Pete Bankhead, fixed a bug the caused the Process>Batch>Convert command to not work correctly on Macs.
• Thanks to 'Hamish', fixed a bug that caused the roiManager("delete") macro function to throw an exception when used in a loop.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused one column results tables to not be displayed correctly.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused File>Import>Raw to silently fail when importing a stack and the file size was smaller than the size of a single image.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused the Overlay.drawString() macro function to not correctly display right-justified text.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed bugs that caused the run("Raw...",options) and run("Image Sequence...",options) macro functions to fail silently if the file or folder did not exist.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused the stack title to be incorrect after importing an image sequence on Windows using a file path with forward slashes.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused File>Open Next to not correctly open a non-composite image after having opened a composite image.
• Thanks to Ved Sharma, fixed an ROI Manager bug that caused a "Rename ROI" dialog do be unexpectadly displayed when running macro using setKeyDown("alt") and makeOval() to create a composite selection.
• Thanks to Ved Sharma, fixed an ROI Manager bug that caused an exception when saving an ROI set containing a point selection followed by a composite selection.
• Thanks to Salim Kanoun, fixed a bug that caused RoiManager.addRoi(roi) calls to be ignored if the ROI was a duplicate.
• Thanks to 'TMC', fixed a bug that caused the ROI Manager's "Interpolate ROIs" command to throw an exception.
• Thanks to 'Agnieszka', fixed a bug that caused the ImagePlus.getFileInfo() method to throw a NullPointerException.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused the Macros>Evaluate commands in the text editor to not update the Window menu.
• Thanks to Norbert Vischer, fixed a bug that caused the macro editor to not always abort any existing macro before running another one.
• Thanks to Manel Bosch, fixed a 1.52e regression that caused image conversions to RGB to not preserve the color coding.

1.52e 11 July 2018

• The "Threshold" tool no longer resets the display range of 16-bit and 32-bit images.
• Restored the "Set" button (removed in 1.51r) to the "Threshold" dialog,
• Thanks to Kai Schleicher, the options string of the FolderOpener.open(dir,options) method can now include a file name filter (example).
• Added a no-argument constructor to the PointRoi class (example at Help>Examples>JavaScript>Points).
• Added the Roi.size() method, equivalent to Roi.getPolygon().npoints.
• Added the FFT.forward(), FFT.multiply(), FFT.inverse() and FFT.filter() methods (JavaScript example).
• The open("/path/to/file.avi") macro function and the IJ.openImage("/path/to/file.avi") method now open AVI files by default as virtual stacks.
• Thanks to Volko Straub and Michael Schmid, fixed bugs that caused the ImageProcessor.isInvertedLut() and ImageProcessor.isColorLut() methods to sometimes incorrectly return 'true' with thresholded images.
• Thanks to Volko Straub, fixed a bug that could cause non-thresholded pixels in 16-bit and 32-bit images to be highlighted in red (example).
• Thanks to Thomas Boudier and Jan Eglinger, fixed a bug that caused macro file name parameters containing a "]" character to not be read correctly.
• Thanks to Michael Nonet, fixed a bug caused the median to always be set to zero when measuring line selections.
• Thanks to Norbert Vischer, fixed a bug that caused errors after running the run("RGB Stack") or run("HSB Stack") macro functions on large images when running Java 8 on macOS.
• Thanks to Chris Wood and Curtis Rueden, fixed a bug that caused the Image>Stacks>Delete Slice command to deadlock when deleting the last channel of a hyperstack.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused the Process>Math>NaN Background command to throw an exception when attempting to process a non-32-bit stack.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug on Windows that caused text to be pasted into text editor windows at the wrong position.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused print("\n\n") to do nothing instead of outputting two blank lines as expected.
• Thanks to 'mryellow', fixed a bug that caused polygonal ROIs with more than 65,535 points to not be saved correctly.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a bug that caused right justified TextRois. to not be displayed correctly if the fill color was not set.
• Thanks to Lorenzo Cangiano and Jan Eglinger, fixed a 1.52c regression that caused a "Save changes?" dialog to be unexpectedly displayed when closing an image with a multi-point selection.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, fixed a 1.52d regression that caused density calibration to be lost when duplicating 8-bit and 16-bit images.

1.52d 11 June 2018

• The Image>Show Info command no longer truncates one line slice labels to 60 charactera.
• Thanks to Norbert Vischer, the changeValues() macro function can now be used to replace NaNs. (example).
• Thanks to Mark Histed, when the shift key is down, the display range is no longer changed when stepping forward/back in a stack.
• Thanks to Hugo, the Process>FFT command displays an error message if the padded image is going to be 65536x65536 or larger.
• Thanks to Roger Leigh, the IJ.javaVersion() method works with Java 11.
• Added the IJ.Roi(x,y,w,h) and IJ.OvalRoi(x,y,w,h) methods.
• Thanks to Gregor and Michael Schmid, added the ImageProcessor.createMask() method (example).
• Thanks to David Kysela, added the PointRoi.promptBeforeDeleting(boolean) method (example).
• Thanks to Laurent Thomas, added the ImagesToStack.run(images) method (example).
• Added the Tools.getStatistics(double[]) method.
• Thanks to Ximo Soriano and Michael Schmid, fixed a bug that could cause the newImage("Name","RGB noise",width,height,1) macro function to throw an exception.
• Thanks to Ruben Gres, fixed a bug that caused the Overlay.duplicate() method to not keep the 'isCalibrationBar' and 'selectable' settings.
• Thanks to David Schreiner, fixed bugs that caused the File>Import>Image Sequence command to not correctly handle image metadata longer then 60 characters.
• Thanks to 'yahbai', fixed bugs that caused the saveAs("jpg",path), saveAs("gif",path) and Overlay.measure macro functions to not work in headless mode.
• Thanks to 'yahbai', fixed a bug that caused the ImagePlus.deleteRoi() method to throw an exception in headless mode.
• Thanks to Michael Kaul, fixed a 1.52a regression that caused an EOFException when opening Analyze format RGB images.
• Thanks to Bill Christens-Barry, fixed a 1.52b regression that caused the label set with the setMetadata("Label", label) macro function to not be displayed in the image subtitle of single images.
• Thanks to Michael Cammer, fixed a 1.52c regression that caused the Image>Crop command to not work as expected with 16-bit images.
• Thanks to Peter Meijer, fixed a 1.52c regression that could cause ClassCastExceptions when converting RGB images to stacks.

1.52c 20 May 2018

• Activating an ROI in an overlay created by Measure (with ‚ÄúAdd to overlay" enabled), or by the particle analyzer, selects the corresponding row in the "Results" table.
• ImageJ displays a "Delete Points?" dialog before deleting a multi-point selection with counters.
• Thanks to "zzyzyman", fixed a bug that caused ImageJ to fail to open odd-width RGB AVI files.
• Thanks to Merijn van Erp, fixed a bug that caused the CurveFitter.getSortedFitList() method to throw an exception.
• Thanks to Kees Straatman and Bill Christens-Barry, fixed a bug in the macro interpreter that caused it to not detect a missing '[' after an array variable.
• Thanks to Mike, fixed a 1.52b regression that caused the AVI Reader to fail with a "Required item ‚Äò00ix‚Äô not found" error.
• Thanks to Curtis Rueden, fixed a 1.51t regression that caused errors in headless mode macros to throw a HeadlessException.
• Thanks to 'cortig' and Curtis Rueden, fixed a 1.52b regression that caused the "Apply" option of the Image>Adjust>Threshold command to not behave as expected with 16 and 32 bit images.

1.52b 6 May 2018

• Changed "Random" to "Noise" in the "Fill with:" choice of the File>New>Image dialog box.
• Thanks to Christian Evenhuis, fixed a bug with the Edit>Selection>Line to Area command that caused the resulting area selection to translated if the source was a polyline or freeline selection less than 5 pixels wide.
• Added the IJ.javaVersion() method.
• Thanks to Fred Damen, fixed bugs that caused the Image>Stacks>Tools>Concatenate command to sometimes not work as expected.
• Thanks to Aryeh Weiss and Michael Schmid, worked around a Linux problem with large images not showing at low magnification.
• Thanks to Fred Damen, fixed bugs that sometimes caused slices labels of single slice stacks to be lost.
• Thanks to BrainPatcher and Stefan Helfrich, fixed a bug that caused the ROI Manager's "Multi Measure" command to not work correctly with point selections.
• Thanks to "zzyzyman", fixed a bug that caused ImageJ to fail to open AVI files that used the 'indx'/'ix00' indexing schema.
• Thanks to Moses, fixed a 1.52a regression that caused row labels to be omitted from tables created by the ROI Manager's "Multi Measure" command.
• Thanks to Jerome Mutterer, fixed a 1.52a regression that caused imported Results tables to be displayed without row numbers.

1.52a 23 April 2018

• Thanks to Michael Schmid, added Apply Macro commands to the Edit and contextual (right click pop-up) menus of table windows. Also added the ResultsTable.applyMacro() method (JavaScript example).
• Thanks to Ron DeSpain, tables created by the Image>Overlay>List Elements command can be renamed "Results" and the values accessed using the getResults() and getStringResult() macro functions.
• Removed the obsolete Plugins>New>Table command. Macros that use this command will continue to work.
• Thanks to Michael Kaul, added an optional 5th argument ('stepSize') to the Dialog.addSlider() macro function (example).
• Thanks to Gabriel Landini, on Linux, added the ‚ÄúCancel button on right‚Äù option to the Edit>Options>Appearance dialog box.
• The "showRowNumbers" property of the ResultsTable class now defaults to 'false'.
• Thanks to Adrian Daerr, when importing ".raw" files with dimensions encoded in the name (e.g. "myfile-640x480.raw"), the byte order is set to big-endian if the name ends in "be.raw" and to little-endian if the name ends in "le.raw".
• Thanks to Arttu Miettinen, imported ".raw" files with dimensions encoded in the name can have a width and/or height less than 10.
• Thanks to Stein Rorvik, added toScaled(x,y,z) and toUnscaled(x,y,z) macro functions.
• Added 20 macro functions that work with tables. They operate on the current (frontmost) table or an optional title argument can be provided (e.g., Table.size("My Table")). Examples: Sine/Cosine Tables, Rearrange Table and Access Tables.
  • Table.create() - opens a new table
  • Table.reset() - resets (clears) the table
  • Table.size() - number of rows in the table
  • Table.title() - title of the current table
  • Table.headings() - column headings as a tab-delimited string
  • Table.get(columnName, rowIndex) - returns a numeric value
  • Table.getColumn(columnName) - returns a column as an array
  • Table.getString(columnName, rowIndex) - returns a string value
  • Table.set(columnName, rowIndex, value) - sets numeric or string value
  • Table.setColumn(columnName, array) - sets an array as a column
  • Table.update() - updates table window
  • Table.applyMacro(macro) - applies macro code to table
  • Table.rename(title1, title2) - renames a table
  • Table.save(filePath) - saves the table
  • Table.open(filePath) - opens a table
  • Table.deleteRows(index1, index2) - deletes specified rows
  • Table.renameColumn(oldName, newName) - renames a column
  • Table.deleteColumn(columnName) - deletes specified column
  • Table.showRowNumbers(boolean) - enable/disable row numbers
  • Table.showArrays(titleAndOptions, array1, array2, ...) - displays arrays in a table (like Array.show)
• Thanks to Trevor Joyce and A Schain, added the macro-callable RoiManager.getIndexesAsString() method.
• Thanks to Michael Schmid, added the Tools.copyFile(path1,path2) method.
• Thanks to Salim Kanoun, added the RoiManager.setRoi(roi,index) and Overlay.set(roi,index) methods.
• Thanks to Fred Damen, fixed a bug that caused the SubHyperstackMaker.makeSubhyperstack() method to not work when extracting a single frame.
• Thanks to Fred Damen and Michael Schmid, fixed a curve fitter bug that could cause a NullPointerException.
• Thanks to Norbert Vischer, fixed a bug that caused the File.copy() macro function to not preserve the modification date.
• Thanks to Philippe Carl, fixed a bug that caused the Image>Hyperstacks>Reduce Dimensionality command to not preserve the "Info" image property.
• Thanks to Jan Eglinger, fixed bugs that caused the roiManager("open",path) macro function to ignore the roi name and roiManager("save",path) not to be recorded when 'path' ended in ".roi".
• Thanks to Norbert Vischer, fixed a bug that caused the Image Calculator to not correctly calculate the result when the operation is MULTIPLY or DIVIDE, the 1st image is 8 or 16 bit, the 2nd image is 32 bit and "32-bit result" is unchecked.
• Thanks to Mark Rivers, fixed a bug that caused ImageJ to not correctly open some uncompressed planar RGB TIFFs.
• Fixed a 1.51s regression that caused statistical calculations on small 16-bit images or selections to be much slower.
• Thanks to Michael Schmid, fixed a 1.51o regression that caused the particle analyzer to hang when processong 32-bit images.

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