Extract information from an existed TagGroup in DM

The dm3/dm4 files contain the acquisition parameters and other information in its unique data structure: "TagGroup". In this example, I will show you how to extract the information from an existed taggroup.

The tag structure in an SI image is like this:

The following code will show how to obtain the operation voltage from the tag group

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// An example shows how to extract info from an existed taggroup

image src := GetFrontImage()

TagGroup tg = src.ImageGetTagGroup()

TagGroup parenttg

string path, label

// Asign tag path

If (!GetString("Enter path to tag", "Microscope Info:Voltage", path)) Exit(0)

result("path : " + path + "\n")

tg.TagGroupParseTagPath(path, parenttg, label)

parenttg.TagGroupOpenBrowserWindow("Parent of "+label, 0)

// Get value from a given path

number val

TagGroupGetTagAsFloat(tg,path,val)

result(label + " : "+val+"\n")

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Output:

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path : Microscope Info:Voltage

Voltage : 200000

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