[OpenSPIM] laser questions, About the OpenSPIM/Fiji package, Getting the code back on track

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Wade,

On Tue, 21 May 2013, Wade Sigurdson wrote:

> Tried the new, updated version and all seems to be working.  No error
> messages and I was able to start the hardware wizard and configure the
> stage and camera.

Great!

> Only caveat is that I had to delete the OPEN_SPIM folder where the
> download zip had been extracted and re-extract the zip. Then after doing
> the FIJI upgrade the MM Studio plugin worked. Trying to simply upgrade
> the previously installed version resulted in the same error. I'm not
> sure if there was something that I had done in trying to get MM Studio
> to function before your modifications or if the software needs to have
> all the upgrades applied in a specific order.

Well, it seems you hit a bug in the updater here because it should not
matter at all in which order the upgrades are applied.

If it happens again, may I ask you to just zip up the complete
(non-working) OpenSpim.app/ directory and upload it via Help>Upload Sample
File?

> Still waiting on our machine shop to finish a few items, but will keep
> the list updated once we get the system assembled, aligned and imaging.

Cool! When you have a working setup, maybe you could take a photo and post
information here: http://openspim.org/Who_has_an_OpenSPIM%3F

Ciao,
Johannes