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

[Nico S. <nic...@uc...>]

Hi Pat,
> 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.

If  you want to control MM from Python, please do have a look at the new 
ZMQ server and Pygellan (https://github.com/henrypinkard/Pygellan).

> 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.

Yes, an overhaul of the website is planned. There is clearly a problem 
with documentation lagging development, and having the documentation for 
two different versions not clearly separated.  For Java 2.0 
documentation, please look at: 
https://micro-manager.org/wiki/Version_2.0, for C++/core documentation, 
most of the material in 
https://micro-manager.org/wiki/Micro-Manager_Programming_Guide is still 
appropriate.

If there are specific omissions/things hard to understand/follow, please 
let it be known, and/or update them yourself (request an account here: 
https://micro-manager.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount).


Best,


Nico