Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Folks,

 

This is from the areaDetector R3-9 release notes:

 

- All modules.

  - Added .bob files for Phoebus, autoconverted from .adl files.

 

- Documentation

  - Converted more of the driver HTML documentation hosted at cars.uchicago.edu to ReST hosted at areaDetector.githun.io.

    Much of this work was done at the recent Codeathon at Diamond Light Source. Thanks to Andy Wilson, Gary Yendell, and Timo Korhonen for work on this.

  - Updated the install_guide.rst to reflect the changes to the configure/ directory described below.

  - Changes to Sphinx settings to make Web pages wider, improving appearance of tables.

  - Change from Sphinx 1.8.4 to 1.8.5.

 

- configure/ directory

  - Fixed problems with EXAMPLE_RELEASE_LIBS.local and EXAMPLE_RELEASE_PRODS.local. They were missing the definition of SUPPORT.

  - Removed EXAMPLE_RELEASE_SUPPORT.local and EXAMPLE_RELEASE_BASE.local. RELEASE_SUPPORT.local and RELEASE_BASE.local are no longer used.

    They were previously used, for example, to allow building Linux and Windows in the same tree where the definition of SUPPORT and EPICS_BASE would have a different syntax.

    This is now handled in the more standard way of optionally including $(TOP)/../RELEASE.local and $(TOP)/../RELEASE.$(EPICS_HOST_ARCH).local.

  - RELEASE_LIBS_INCLUDE and RELEASE_PRODS_INCLUDE were changed to also optionally include these files from the level above $(AREA_DETECTOR).

 

- ADGenICam R1-2 and R1-3

  - Change integer features from epicsInt32 to epicsInt64. Requires asyn R4-38.

  - Added databases and OPI files for many more FLIR and AVT cameras.

 

- ADSpinnaker R2-1

  - Change integer features from epicsInt32 to epicsInt64. Requires asyn R4-38.

  - Added vendor SFNC_GenTL*.xml files which are required to be present in the lib directory on Linux.

 

- ADAravis R1-2

  - Change integer features from epicsInt32 to epicsInt64. Requires asyn R4-38.

 

- ADUVC

  - New driver for USB Video Class devices from Jakub Wlodek.

 

 

This is from the ADCore R3-9 release notes:

 

- CCDMultiTrack

  - New CCDMultiTrack class and database to support spectroscopy detectors that support multi-track readout (Peter Heesterman)

 

- NDPluginStats

  - Fixed an off-by-one bug in the histogram calculation.

    It was incorrectly reporting the number of elements above HistMax and the mid-point element of the histogram had 0 counts when it should not.

 

- NDFileHDF5

  - Fixed problem with XML2 library linking warnings on static Windows builds (Peter Heesterman)

 

- NDPluginStdArrays

  - Changes to support compressed NDArrays. This will really only work properly when the ArrayData waveform record FTVL is CHAR, since compressed data is just a stream of bytes.

 

- NDFileNetCDF

  - Changes to handle NDArrays and NDAttributes with data types epicsInt64 and epicsUInt64.

 

- SCANRATE macro

  - A new macro has been added to NDPosPlugin.template, NDPluginBase.template, NDFile.tamplate, NDArrayBase.template and ADBase.template.

    This can be used to control the SCAN value of status PVs which update on every frame such as ArrayCounter_RBV, TimeStamp_RBV, UniqueId_RBV among others.

 

- docs

  - Replaced all raw HTML tables in .rst files with Sphinx flat-tables.

 

- iocBoot/EXAMPLE_commonPlugins.cmd

  - Added command callbackSetQueueSize(5000) to avoid callbackRequest: cbLow ring buffer full errors.

 

- Database files ADBase.template, NDPluginBase.template, and ADPrefixes.template

  - Fixed syntax errors. They were missing quotes around the macro parameters $(PORT) and $(NELEMENTS). This caused parsing errors if the macros contained special characters like colon (:).

 

- OPI files

  - Added .bob files for the Phoebus Display Builder. These are autoconverted from the .adl files.

 

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The home page is here:

https://github.com/areaDetector

 

The top-level documentation is here:

https://areadetector.github.io/master/index.html

 

Installation instructions are here:

https://areadetector.github.io/master/install_guide.html

 

areaDetector release notes are here:

https://github.com/areaDetector/areaDetector/blob/master/RELEASE.md

 

ADCore release notes are here:

https://github.com/areaDetector/ADCore/blob/master/RELEASE.md