FAQ

= Camera issues =

I get the error that a core property is read-only?
Due to a bug in the HamamatsuHam driver (which is not Open Source, unfortunately, otherwise we could try to fix things), the error messages are not quite stellar. They are even outright misleading.

The issue, most likely, is that Fiji reserves so much RAM for its own use that the Hamamatsu driver is unable to reserve space for its image buffers.

Just go to Edit>Options>Memory & Threads... and limit the RAM Fiji uses to, say, 1GB. Restart Fiji, and all should be fine.

= Community =

How to share images?
We have a WebDAV scratch now (for Windows, please install Cyberduck since Windows Explorer's WebDAV support is incapable of communicating with our server, for Linux or MacOSX refer to the capabilities of Nautilus and Finder, respectively).

Note, however, that Windows' network stack is not able to perform fast uploads. If you can, use Linux or MacOSX. The difference is huge: in one particular case, we measured ~300kB/sec on Windows and 17MB/sec on Linux.

The scratch space is located at http://openspim.org/scratch/. For core OpenSPIM developers, there is a shared account 'webdav', a write-only account will be added soon.

How to report bugs
We have a ticket system. If you add new tickets, please make sure to


 * the category is OpenSPIM
 * assign the ticket to yourself if you intend to solve it
 * add a target version if you want the ticket to show up in the roadmap
 * add a concise summary and additional useful information in the description
 * if you need this ticket to be visible only to the core developers of OpenSPIM, mark it as 'private'

Once you added a ticket, you might want to go back to it and make it a child of a goal ticket in the Relationship box.

= Software =

How do I autostart µManager when Fiji starts?
In Fiji, run the command Plugins>Macros>Startup Macros... and add the following lines to the end:

macro AutoRun { run("Micro-Manager Studio"); }

How do I autostart the OpenSPIM plugin when µManager starts up?
If you want the SPIM plugin to be called everytime when Micro-Manager starts, add the following lines to the Fiji.app/MMStartup.bsh file:

setAccessibility(true); import org.micromanager.MMStudioMainFrame.PluginItem; for (PluginItem plugin : gui.plugins_) if (plugin.className.equals("SPIMAcquisition")) { plugin.instantiate; plugin.plugin.show; }

How do I start µManager from the command-line?
There are two ways, really. The Fiji way:

fiji-win32 --run Micro-Manager_Studio

Call the Studio directly, without first starting ImageJ:

fiji-win32 --main-class=org.micromanager.MMStudioMainFrame