areaDetector R1-4 released

["Mark Rivers" <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>]

Folks,

I have released a new version (R1-4) of the areaDetector module.

The home page is here:
http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/epics/areaDetector.html

The documentation is here:
http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/epics/areaDetectorDoc.html

It is also available on SourceForge:
http://epics.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/epics/applications/tags/areaDete
ctor/1-4/

This release of areaDetector now supports all of the detectors that used
to be supported in my older "ccd" and "pilatusROI" modules.  I will no
longer be supporting those modules, so users should convert to
areaDetector.

This is from the release notes:

- Added a driver for Roper Scientific (i.e. Princeton Instruments and
Photometrics) detectors. It uses the Microsoft COM interface to control
the WinView or WinSpec programs. The previous support in the "ccd"
module used a Visual Basic socket server and an SNL program to
accomplish this. It was hard to maintain, because Visual Basic changed
incompatibly from one release of Visual Studio to the next, and because
it could not be built with the EPICS build system. The new driver is
written in C++, and is built entirely with the EPICS build system. It
also supports more WinView features than the ccd version, and makes the
detector data available via callbacks. This allows detector data to be
displayed with EPICS clients, permits ROI or other plugin calculations,
and allows saving in other file formats if desired. 

- Added support for color

- Added a new plugin NDPluginColorConvert to convert colors. 
  It currently converts Bayer to RGB1, RGB2 or RGB3, RGB1 to RGB2 or 
  RGB3 and RGB3 to RGB1 or RGB2. 

- Prosilica driver 
  - Added support for color. 
  - Added support for the external sync in, sync out and strobe signals.

    The sync signals can also be used for general-purpose digital I/O. 

- Added a Viewers directory. This contains an IDL viewer for displaying
images. The viewer supports color and several different viewing modes.
It can be run for free under the IDL Virtual Machine, and should work on
any platform with a version of ezcaIDL.so or ezcaIDL.dll built with
EPICS 3.14. This directory also contains IDL class libraries for
accessing areaDetector. These classes are used by the viewers, but can
also be used for other IDL applications. 

Cheers,
Mark