Re: image order

> I was wondeing how ImageJ (or Java I think) handles file
> names. Usually my files are named in a way that the priority
> is from left to right for the alphabetical order, ie
> 051121.tif is before 051221 and after 051120 (using reversed
> YYMMDD dates as exemples). It works well with windows, but
> with the ImageJ "Import Image Sequence" command the priority
> for alphabetical order seems reversed for the order of the
> slices in the obtained stack... Can somebody tell me how are
> filenames sorted in ImageJ ?

The File>Import>Image Sequence command sorts files names into 
alphanumeric order so the above three files would be stored in the 
stack in this order:

    051120.tif
    051121.tif
    051221.tif

The exception is DICOM files, which are sorted by the value of the 
image number tag.

> Close to this subject, is there a way or a macro to sort a
> stack based on the labels of the slices ?

I am not aware of a plugin or macro that does this.

-wayne