Re: areaDetector problem

[John Hammonds <JPHammonds@anl.gov>]

My first suggestion is to make sure that you actually have the latest 
version of 1-6.  I was having a similar problem before the official 
release and updating made this go away.

John

On 7/15/2010 3:44 PM, John Dobbins wrote:
> I am using areaDetector with Flea2 Firewire cameras on WindowsXP.
>
> I can create a camera driver (WinFDC_Config) and pipe the output 
> through a chain of plugins:
>
>   camera_driver -> process-> overlay -> NDStdArray -> stats
>
> and everything works.  I next tried to create an IOC with two cameras 
> and found
>
>   {camera_driver_1, camera_driver_2} -> process
> works, where process can receive output from one camera or the other.  
> However
>
>   {camera_driver_1, camera_driver_2} -> process -> overlay
> crashes. In particular the IOC crashes on start up at the last of 
> these lines:
>
>   NDOverlayConfigure("OVER1", $(QSIZE), 0, "PROC1", 0, 8, -1, -1)
>   dbLoadRecords("$(AREA_DETECTOR)/ADApp/Db/NDPluginBase.template",...
>   dbLoadRecords("$(AREA_DETECTOR)/ADApp/Db/NDOverlay.template"
>   dbLoadRecords("$(AREA_DETECTOR)/ADApp/Db/NDOverlayN.template", ...
>
> I get an error message "myIOC.exe has encountered a problem and needs 
> to close". If I omit the last line the IOC will start up. Note that 
> these are the same db files that work in the single camera IOC.
>
>
> I don't know how to proceed. Hoping someone can suggest a next step. 
> Any wild guesses as to what might be a problem?
>
> Regards,
>
> John Dobbins
> Lab for Elementary Particle Physics
> Cornell University

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