[OpenSPIM] Picard stage adapter problem

[Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith]

Hello,

Thank you very much!  On re-updating Fiji this morning, the stage issue has
resolved - PicardStage appears and is available for configuration.  I am
now all set except that my camera (I am using a Photometrics one rather
than the Hamamatsu, so I added the PVCAM dll file) is able to load and snap
images, but times out when I try to use the live view.   Has anyone seen a
similar issue, or happen to have any suggestions for fixing this?

Thanks again,
Aurelia



On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith <
aureliaomega at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks very much, this is really helpful!  I will give this advice a try
> and let you know when I succeed.  And it's great news that things work with
> Windows 7, that should save me some time.  I am actually hoping to use a
> Photometrics camera (which we already had) rather than the Hamamatsu, and I
> know it works in Micromanager on Windows 7 already, so hopefully that will
> go smoothly.
>  Aurelia
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Luke Stuyvenberg <stuyvenberg at wisc.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi Aurelia,
>>
>> On 09/18/13, Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith  wrote:
>> > I'm running into a problem when I try to configure my 4D stage. If I
>> configure using the January 31 2013 OpenSPIM download, without updating
>> through the website first, the Picard stage loads and works normally.
>> However once I run the update, the stage can't be found (I get the error
>> message, "OpenSPIM Unable to load library: file not accessible or
>> corrupted," and it appears as "Picard stage (unavailable)" in the hardware
>> configuration wizard list of devices. Has anyone else had this problem?
>> The error message itself is expected now; the old mmgr_dal_OpenSPIM.dll
>> file is deprecated (meaning when you update, it deletes that file). As
>> Johannes explained, you'll need to re-make the configuration file to use
>> the new device adapter.
>>
>>
>> In the list of devices, is there also a 'PicardStage' subtree you can
>> see? If so, the devices there should be used instead of those under
>> OpenSPIM. Once your configuration files no longer try to use OpenSPIM,
>>
>>
>> If not (which is what the "(unavailable)" seems to be indicating), please
>> make sure that the PiUsb.dll file exists in the same directory as
>> mmgr_dal_PicardStage.dll (which should be, from the ImageJ/Fiji directory,
>> in "mm/win32/"). If this file is missing for some reason, running the Fiji
>> Updater might restore it.
>>
>>
>> If the above doesn't help solve the problem, you can try using the Fiji
>> Updater's advanced mode: After launching the updater, click "Advanced
>> Mode". At the top of the window is "View Options:" -- set it to "View files
>> of the 'OpenSPIM' site". In the list of files, look for
>> "mm/win32/PiUsb.dll". The second column should show the status of that
>> file: "Up-to-date" or perhaps "Not installed". If the file is marked as
>> "Not installed" or "Update available", clicking on that text should allow
>> you to set it to "Install / Update"; from there, clicking "Apply Changes"
>> will install the missing file. (If the file is marked as "Up-to-date", then
>> some other problem is making the PicardStage adapter unavailable -- please
>> let me know if this is the case.)
>>
>>
>> > Also, the MicroManager version changes to 1.4.x dev after I run the
>> updater; is that as it should be? I would simply not update, except that I
>> need to do so for my camera to be recognized.
>> The change in Micro-Manager version is also expected; part of the recent
>> updates was to switch to a newer version of the underlying Micro-Manager
>> code.
>>
>>
>>
>> > A second question: is there any possibility or plan for the OpenSPIM
>> software to be made compatible with Windows 7? I can't acquire a new
>> computer and run XP on it anymore, as our computing department won't
>> purchase XP now that it's not supported. I'm using an older machine
>> with XP now, to set up, but I suspect it will be inadequate once I'm
>> acquiring real data sets.
>> As Johannes pointed out, this may already be possible provided the latest
>> DCAM driver is used. There are plans to make Windows 7 officially supported
>> in the future.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please let me know if this doesn't help solve the problem!
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Luke Stuyvenberg
>>
>
>
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