Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

/** Structure defining a dimension of an NDArray */

typedef struct NDDimension {

    size_t size;    /**< The number of elements in this dimension of the array */

    size_t offset;  /**< The offset relative to the origin of the original data source (detector, for example).

                      * If a selected region of the detector is being read, then this value may be > 0.

                      * The offset value is cumulative, so if a plugin such as NDPluginROI further selects

                      * a subregion, the offset is relative to the first element in the detector, and not

                      * to the first element of the region passed to NDPluginROI. */

    int binning;    /**< The binning (pixel summation, 1=no binning) relative to original data source (detector, for example)

                      * The offset value is cumulative, so if a plugin such as NDPluginROI performs binning,

                      * the binning is expressed relative to the pixels in the detector and not to the possibly

                      * binned pixels passed to NDPluginROI.*/

    int reverse;    /**< The orientation (0=normal, 1=reversed) relative to the original data source (detector, for example)

                      * This value is cumulative, so if a plugin such as NDPluginROI reverses the data, the value must

                      * reflect the orientation relative to the original detector, and not to the possibly

                      * reversed data passed to NDPluginROI. */

} NDDimension_t;

Some drivers probably don’t set those NDDimension fields as they should, so they will need to be fixed to handle those cases.

I think the plugin should handle:

-          All NDArray data types

-          2-D NDArrays and 3-D NDArrays with ColorMode=RGB1

Mark