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ScanImage 3.8 is a major upgrade adding several new features and several unser interface enhancements. Notably, Cycle mode operation, previously only available in r3.5.x, has been restored and revamped.
Existing ScanImage users (of versions 3.5-3.7) should see the upgrade notes .
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Major Enhancements
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- Cycle
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- mode
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- has
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- been
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- restored,
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- using
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- new
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- table-based
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- Cycle
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- Controls
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- to
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- specify
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- changes
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- (motor
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- steps,
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- CFG
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- file
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- loads,
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- and/or
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- other
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- settings)
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- to
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- apply
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- at
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- each
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- Cycle
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- iteration
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- Operation
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- under
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- 64-bit
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- Windows
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- 7
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- A
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- 'Mosaic'
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- macro
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- allows
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- configuration
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- of
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- Cycle
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- for
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- acquisition
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- at
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- multiple,
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- tiled
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- fields-of-view
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- Point/Line/Rectangle/Square
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- ROIs
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- all
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- now
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- treated
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- via
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- unified
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- ROI
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- concept,
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- managed
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- in
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- the
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- new
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- ROI
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- Controls
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- dialog
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- Extended
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- support
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- for
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- User
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- Functions,
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- including
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- USR
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- file
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- bindings
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- and
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- configurable
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- 'override
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- functions'
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- Support
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- for
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- a
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- display
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- rolling
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- average,
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- independent
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- of
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- any
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- file
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- frame
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- averaging
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Other Enhancements
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- Support
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- stack
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- acquisitions
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- centered
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- at
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- the
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- current
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- axial
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- position
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- Support
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- for
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- separated
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- XY
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- &
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- Z
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- motor
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- controllers
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- Support
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- for
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- secondary
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- Z
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- motor
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- controller,
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- e.g.
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- case
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- of
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- XYZ
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- stage
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- plus
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- additional
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- piezo
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- controller
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- Support
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- for
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- Physik
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- Instrumente
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- stage
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- controllers,
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- for
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- standard
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- stack
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- acquisition
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- Sub-unity
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- zoom
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- factor
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- values
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- are
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- permitted,
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- in
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- relation
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- to
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- new
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- ScanAngularRangeReference
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- values
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- defined
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- in
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- INI
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- file
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- PMT
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- Offset
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- values
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- can
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- now
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- be
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- auto-subtracted
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- from
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- displayed/stored
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- image
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- data,
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- per
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- channel
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- (set
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- in
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- Image
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- Controls
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- or
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- Channels
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- panels)
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- Support
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- for
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- fast
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- scanning,
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- e.g.
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- with
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- AODs
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- or
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- small-angle
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- galvos:
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- Line
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- periods
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- of
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- 0.125
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- and
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- 0.25
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- ms/line
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- Fill
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- fraction
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- range
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- extended
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- from
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- 0.5
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- to
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- 0.975
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- Output
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- sample
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- rates
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- up
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- to
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- 800kHz
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- Faster
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- CFG
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- file
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- loading
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- Faster
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- Fast
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- Configuration
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- switching
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- New
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- scim_pointLaser()
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- utility
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- function
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- Option
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- to
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- park
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- scanner
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- between
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- stack
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- slices
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- (e.g.
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- useful
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- when
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- no/insufficient
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- Pockels
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- blanking
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- present)
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- Improvements
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- to
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- scim_openTif()
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- :
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- Support
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- MPEG
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- video
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- creation
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- Much
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- faster
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- read
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- times,
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- now
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- using
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- Matlab
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- TIF
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- object
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- instead
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- of
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- imread()
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Changes
- The Acquisition Controls dialog has been eliminated, with the various controls (# Frames, Repeat Period, etc) redistributed to the (significantly redesigned) Main Controls, Motor Controls, Image Controls, and Configuration dialogs
- The ROI addition/selection tools on the Main Controls have been significantly changed, with much of this functionality now shared with the newly added ROI Controls dialog
- The motor position controls, e.g. to define/goto/save/load motor positions, have been moved from the Motor Controls to the new Position Controls dialog
- The Scan Angular Rangevalues (fast & slow) have been replaced by the combination of:
- ScanAngularRangeReference values (fast & slow), specified in the INI file, and
- ScanAngleMultiplier values (fast & slow), specified as part of the Configuration on the Main Controls dialog
- The externalTriggerInputTerminals no longer need to be specified in the INI file; PFI numbers can simply be entered in Triggers... dialog
- The Channels dialog is no longer modal – any changes take effect immediately
- Figure size no longer changes upon change in aspect ratio (e.g. rectangular ROIs); rectangular area is simply shown in existing (typ. square) figure window
- PMT Offset values are now per-sample, not per-pixel, so value does not depend on configured bin factor, etc.
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