[ome-devel] ST FilenamePattern & TheT

[Tomasz Macura]

>
>> Interesting problem--
>>
>>    the EMBL folks have in their file names the exact time of imaging  
>> rather than t1, t2, t3,.... e.g.
>>
>> 0001--Hp1gamma_si--W00001--P00001--T00000m--SL00000--Q00--F03-- 
>> I0025.tif
>> 0001--Hp1gamma_si--W00001--P00001--T00030m--SL00000--Q00--F03-- 
>> I0025.tif
>> 0001--Hp1gamma_si--W00001--P00001--T00060m--SL00000--Q00--F03-- 
>> I0025.tif
>> 0001--Hp1gamma_si--W00001--P00001--T00090m--SL00000--Q00--F03-- 
>> I0025.tif
>> 0001--Hp1gamma_si--W00001--P00001--T00120m--SL00000--Q00--F03-- 
>> I0025.tif
>> 0001--Hp1gamma_si--W00001--P00001--T00150m--SL00000--Q00--F03-- 
>> I0025.tif
>>
>> I can certainly get a regex around this, but what is going to happen  
>> to TheT's?
>
> Unfortunately, they won't be interpreted correctly.
I modestly disagree. There is a general problem of what to do if not  
all the T slices are present. I believe, its valid to use
the T numbers for ordering not as absolute T slice numbers. So:  
{img_t1, img_t2, img_t4} will get imported as one image with three  
time-planes.

I am not sure whether the TIFFreader code is currently general enough  
to handle breaks in the numbering, but it could easily be.

If the approach I am advocating is followed, Josh's images will be  
imported in T order easily.

- Tom