[OpenSPIM] HamamatsuHam, Windows 7 & OpenSPIM

[Alexis Maizel]

Hello Luke,
thanks a bunch for the precise and helpful message. 
I only had the opportunity to do  some tests today and it revealed quite frustrating:  

> If you fully update your OpenSPIM installation (Help -> Update Fiji), when you launch Micro-Manager it should register as 'v1.4.x dev' (I believe the code was between 1.4.13 and 1.4.14).

First, I had (stupidly) never thought about upgrading the OpenSPIM's Fiji. Indeed, now the MM version is "1.4.x dev" 	 

> I just tested now (Windows XP, freshly up-to-date OpenSPIM-20130131.zip, with an Orca R^2), and the software can load the mmgr_dal_HamamatsuHam.dll file included in the latest MM nightly build

Indeed it can now load the mmgr_dal_HamamatsuHam.dll
Unfortunately, it still can not communicate properly with the Camera (OrcaFlash4). The errors messages I get are:
Device HamamatsuHam_DCAM. Error in device HamamatsuHam_DCAM: Error code 40 (28 hex)
Device HamamatsuHam_DCAM. Error in device HamamatsuHam_DCAM: Native Module failed to load

What is really surprising is that the same device Adapter works perfectly (camera is operated and live stream works) when run into a 'standalone' MicroManager (tested: latest nightly build, v1.4.13 and v1.4.14). Therefore it seems that the issue resides into the MM version embedded into OpenSPIM (and/or that I am running Windows 7).

> I can't make any certain statements about support for Windows 7, unfortunately, since our goal at present is to maximize support for Windows XP first.

Trying to downgrade to windows XP is  something I have tried at the very beginning, but it seems the laptop we use is too modern for XP and after hours of attempts, I dropped that option. (I might add that in the medium-long term only supporting XP may really impair the 'Open' nature of OpenSPIM). 

> Regarding the development environment, I'm actively working on bringing it up-to-date, and your assistance in this would be invaluable -- I was hoping you might test something for me: Please try downloading https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57890359/OpenSPIM-dev-env-20130529.exe and installing it. This is a newer version of the installer, and hopefully should at least finish putting everything into place.

Thanks for this. I am certainly willing/wanting to serve as your guinea-pig for this. Idiot-testing  is always useful. 

Basically, it seems that the 7z archive extracts Git-related files, then I am presented with a command prompt inviting me to install Visual Express Studio (see screenshot). Nothing beyond this point. 

I am motivated to get this to work, so please involve me. 

With my best regards,

Alexis

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