[micro-manager-general] Call additional scripts from within a script

[Then,Patrick // Leibniz-I. <Pat...@le...>]

Hello,


I'm currently experimenting with scripting in Micro-Manager through use of the MMStartup.bsh script.

What I want to do is call MM from some external program and start an multi-dimensional acquisition.

This works so far by just putting everything directly into the startup script.

Ideally, however, I want to expand it a bit by splitting the script into several parts containing different actions to be performed, which I would previously manipulate externally, e.g. through a Python or Labview programm.

The problem is that even when I use the startup script to call a very simple script like the one below ( by 'run("..\\settings.bsh")';):


exposure=20;
mmc.setExposure(exposure);


I get an error

"Line 55: run-time error : Sourced file: ..\settings.bsh : Attempt to resolve method: setExposure() on undefined variable or class name: mmc"


Can somebody help me understand what's going wrong here?

If I run the script directly, it will do what I expect it to do - set the exposure to 20ms. Yet calling it from within another script will prevent it from recognizing the mmc class for some reason.

Do I need to import some class specifically? Or need to set some working directory?

Of course I could potentially just read settings from some external txt file, instead of splitting it into several scripts, if all else fails.


Also, I really appreciate the hard work behind MM and would like to thank the people involved with it, but are there any plans to expand/rework the documentation?

Especially advanced things like scripting and programming MM are documented poorly at times and rather disjointed.


Best regards,

Pat