Re: [micro-manager-general] "Safe" pausing multi-D acquisition / monitoring progress of a current acquisition

[PAVAK S. <pavak@g.ucla.edu>]

Relating to this, I found the getNextWakeTime method in the acquisition
engine, but the returned value (which seems to be a number roughly 82E6 ms)
doesn't look like posix time. Does anyone know how to compare this value
against the current physical time?

Thanks,
Pavak

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 11:38 AM PAVAK SHAH <pa...@uc...> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've recently started my first major effort to integrate some custom code
> with MM 2.0g and am having trouble finding a bit of functionality in the
> API. The goal is for my MATLAB code to "safely" pause an acquisition during
> the interval between timepoints, do some stuff, then move back to the first
> stage position before unpausing (in case the "stuff" takes longer to
> accomplish than the interval).
>
> At the moment, I can see how to grab a handle to the datastore containing
> the current acquisition and monitor the number of frames acquired to check
> if the acquisition should be in a "safe" state (ie. the number of frames is
> an integer multiple of the number of slices and stage positions acquired),
> but this is a bit clunky.
>
> The "messages" window seems to be able to receive updates about the
> current status of the acquisition, but I can't find obvious documentation
> as to where that data is coming from?
>
> If someone can point me in the right direction I'd be greatly appreciative!
>
> Thank you,
> Pavak
>