Re: [micro-manager-general] SPOT insight color camera

[MEYENHOFER F. <fel...@un...>]

Hi Mark

On Aug 31, 2013, at 1:39 , Mark Tsuchida wrote:
> Hi Felix,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:38 AM, MEYENHOFER Felix
> <fel...@un...> wrote:
>> thanks for the information about configurations and for lot for looking into the spot interface problem. I checked the Debug option and here are the new logs (same config)
> 
> Thank you for the log files. I realize that the error is occurring
> when you run a Live acquisition. Does the Snap button work at all?
> (Sorry if you mentioned this and I missed it.) If snapping is also not
> working, it will be a lot easier to start troubleshooting that first.

I did not mention this yet. I was assuming that if live doesn't work, snap won't work either. 
So I checked now and it doesn't work either (error is in the log)

> 
>> From your log file, I can see that there is an error happening during
> the live acquisition that is not properly reported and is likely the
> root cause of the messages seen in the log. I've added a few lines of
> code so that this error should show up in the log. Would you mind
> trying once more with today's (20130830) nightly build?

Here are the recent logs produced with the nightly build (MMSetup_32bit_1.4.15_20130903.exe)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18607042/MM/CoreLog20130904.txt

> 
> Also, I notice that your camera is a color camera. As you can tell
> from the earlier messages in this thread, the Micro-Manager Windows
> device adapter for SPOT does not yet support color cameras (though I
> don't know if that is related to your error).

My bad, I did not realize, that color cameras are not supported yet.

> It looks like SPOT might have a new SDK out for Windows since those messages, so I'll see if
> there is any possibility of now transplanting the Mac code (which does
> support color cameras) -- but I can't promise anything.

Well if this would work out that would be terrific!

Best regards, 

Felix