[OpenSPIM] SPIMAcquisition plugin installation fails

[Carsten Wolff]

Hi Johannes,

it still doesn't work properly, but I have th estrong feeling that we 
are almost there.

I didn't know that I explicitly need the 'Micro-Manager-dev' site for 
updating FIJI. Instead I chose 'OpenSPIM' which is pre-list on the 
update site. That also gave me a Micro-Manager menu in FIJI and the 
error message I previously mentioned. Maybe just an individual problem 
of my computer, but if this is a general problem with the OpenSPIM 
update site it is something to notice, right? Can someone else confirm 
of deny my findings?

So I updated FIJI via Micro-Manager-dev site and 'Acquire SPIM image' 
appeared in the Plugins menu of Micro-Manager. But by clicking on it no 
window opens. Strangely I can control the 4d stage via the mouse in the 
live window which means that at least that feature from SPIMAcquisition 
works, right? Any ideas or suggestions?

best,
Carsten



Am 17.02.2015 um 09:41 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> On 2015-02-16 17:47, Carsten Wolff wrote:
>
>> thank you very much for your help and effort. Unfortunately your idea
>> to copy the FIJI dependencies to Micro-Manager didn't work. I get the
>> same inactive 'plugins' sub-menu as before.
>
> If you start Micro-Manager from the command-line, you should see some 
> output, most likely including an exception. This will be the tell-tale 
> what is missing.
>
> Since I tested the procedure on Linux and you are most likely on 
> Windows, it is quite likely that there are differences in what you 
> have to copy from the `target/dependency/` directory.
>
>> I thought I have to start from Micro-Manager installers instead of
>> starting in FIJI. Because trying to open Micro-Manager from FIJI gives
>> me another error message:
>>
>> 'Failed to load the mmcorej_wrap native library
>> mmcorej.MMCoreJJNI.swig_module_init()V'
>
> Plain Fiji does not have Micro-Manager; you will need to install it by 
> following the Micro-Manager-dev update site (Help>Update..., then 
> click on "Manage update sites", hit the "Add" button and fill in the 
> first and second column of the added row with the values 
> "Micro-Manager-dev" and "http://sites.imagej.net/Micro-Manager-dev/" 
> respectively; I wrote this from memory, some things might be named 
> differently)
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes

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