openmicroscopy/bioformats — pull request #41 by sbesson (2012-03-16 16:14:24+00:00)
Title: Add Matlab utility functions

It makes sense for Matlab users to be able to read only the metadata and/or the data for a given plane from a microscopy image. bfopen still loads all the contents of a file but now calls two functions (bfGetReader/bfGetPlane) which can be used independently.

Also, a subfunction of bfopen now parses supported formats for opening the dialog box. Basically, this is a cheap copy of the printSupportedFormats methods in PrintFormatTable.java with a Matlab-specific format (cell array). There may be a smarter way to call the methods of the java class.