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@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
     <li><a href="#Configuration">Configuration</a></li>
     <li><a href="#Screens">Screen shots</a></li>
     <li><a href="#IDLClient">IDL image display client</a></li>
+    <li><a href="#Future">Future plans</a></li>
   </ul>
   <h2 id="Overview">
     Overview
@@ -33,10 +34,10 @@
     data from a callback into the 1-dimensional arrays supported by the standard asyn
     array interfaces, i.e. asyn[Int8, Int16, Int32, Float32, Float64]Array. These interfaces
     are supported by the EPICS waveform record using standard asyn device support. Because
-    this plugin inherits from NDPluginDriver it also provides additional information
-    on the array data (e.g. number of dimensions and dimension data described above)
-    that are made available as EPICS PVs so that clients can correctly interpret the
-    array data. The NDPluginStdArrays public interface is defined in NDPluginStdArrays.h
+    this plugin inherits from <a href="pluginDoc.html#NDPluginDriver">NDPluginDriver</a>
+    it also provides additional information on the array data (e.g. number of dimensions
+    and dimension data) that are made available as EPICS PVs so that clients can correctly
+    interpret the array data. The NDPluginStdArrays public interface is defined in NDPluginStdArrays.h
     as follows:</p>
   <pre>
 class NDPluginStdArrays : public NDPluginDriver {
@@ -64,13 +65,14 @@ public:
 </pre>
   <p>
     NDPluginStdArrays defines the following parameters. It also implements all of the
-    standard plugin parameters from NDPlugDriver listed above. The EPICS database NDStdArrays.template
-    provides access to these parameters, listed in the following table.
+    standard plugin parameters from <a href="pluginDoc.html#NDPluginDriver">NDPluginDriver</a>
+    . The EPICS database NDStdArrays.template provides access to these parameters, listed
+    in the following table.
   </p>
   <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="text-align: left">
     <tbody>
       <tr>
-        <td align="CENTER" colspan="7,">
+        <td align="center" colspan="7,">
           <b>Parameter Definitions in NDPluginStdArrays.h and EPICS Record Definitions in NDStdArrays.template</b></td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
@@ -195,18 +197,25 @@ public:
   <h2 id="IDLClient">
     IDL Image Display Client</h2>
   <p>
-    There is an IDL program called <code>epics_ad_display</code> that can be used to
-    display 2-dimensional ArrayData that the NDStdArrays plugin sends to EPICS. This
-    IDL client is available as source code (which requires an IDL license), and also
-    as a pre-built IDL .sav file that can be run for free under the IDL Virtual Machine.
-    This IDL program can run on any machine that IDL runs on, and that has the ezcaIDL
-    shareable library built for it. This includes Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac.
-    <code>epics_ad_display</code> is included in the <a href="http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/IDL/imaging.html">
-      CARS IDL imaging software.</a>
+    There is an IDL procedure called <a href="http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/idl/imaging_routines.html#epics_ad_display">
+      epics_ad_display</a> that can be used to display 2-dimensional array data that
+    the NDStdArrays plugin sends to EPICS. This IDL client is available as source code
+    (which requires an IDL license), and also as a pre-built IDL .sav file that can
+    be run for free under the IDL Virtual Machine. This IDL program can run on any machine
+    that IDL runs on, and that has the ezcaIDL shareable library built for it. This
+    includes Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac. <code>epics_ad_display</code> is included
+    in the <a href="http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/IDL/imaging.html">CARS IDL imaging
+      software.</a>
   </p>
   <p>
-    The control window for <code>epics_ad_display</code> is shown below. It has fields
-    to input the base name of the EPICS PVs with the image data. The client uses the
+    The control window for <code>epics_ad_display</code> is shown below. It has a field
+    to input the base name of the EPICS PVs with the image data. It also has fields
+    to enable/display the IDL display update, to change the display mode, to autoscale
+    the intensity, and to invert the image in the Y direction. If autoscale is set to
+    No then manual scaling can be entered in the Min and Max fields. The number of frames
+    per second actually being displayed by IDL is shown. There is a status window that
+    shows whether the EPICS PVs are connected and the time the last was array received,
+    updated once per second.
   </p>
   <div style="text-align: center">
     <h3>
@@ -216,7 +225,7 @@ public:
   </div>
   <p>
     <code>epics_ad_display</code> can use the simple IDL routine <code>tv</code> to
-    display the images. This is the fasted mode, and results in a non-scaleable unadorned
+    display the images. This is the fastest mode, and results in a non-scalable unadorned
     window.</p>
   <div style="text-align: center">
     <h3>
@@ -228,7 +237,7 @@ public:
     <code>epics_ad_display</code> can also use the routine <a href="http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/IDL/imaging_routines.html#IMAGE_DISPLAY">
       image_display.pro</a> to display the images. This routine displays row and column
     profiles as the cursor is moved. It allows changing the color lookup tables, and
-    zooming in and out with the left and right mouse buttons. The following is an example
+    zooming in (right mouse click) and out (left mouse click). The following is an example
     of <code>image_display</code> displaying an image from the simulation detector.</p>
   <div style="text-align: center">
     <h3>
@@ -236,5 +245,12 @@ public:
     <p>
       <img alt="simDetector_image_display.png" src="simDetector_image_display.png" /></p>
   </div>
+  <h2 id="Future">
+    Future plans</h2>
+  <p>
+    Stephen Mudie at the Australian Synchrotron has written a very nice IDL client to
+    display the EPICS images from the Flea Firewire cameras. This client should be converted
+    to display the data from this areaDetector plugin.
+  </p>
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