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<h1 style="text-align: center">
areaDetector Release Notes</h1>
<h2 style="text-align: center">
Release 1-7 (XX-June-2011)</h2>
Release 1-7 (XX-July-2011)</h2>
<ul>
<li>General
<ul>
<li>On Windows if NDFilePath has a trailing '\' then preserve it, else add a '/' character
if one is not present.</li>
<li>Added support for Mac OS X (Darwin). Thanks to Eric Norum for this.</li>
<li>Added support for 64-bit Windows, windows-x64.</li>
<li>Replaced FTVL=UCHAR with FTVL=CHAR in all waveform records, so they can be written
to with dbpf from the IOC shell.</li>
<li>On Windows if NDFilePath has a trailing '\' then preserve it, else add a '/' character
if one is not present.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Drivers
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<li>Initialized ADAcquire to 0 in ADDriver::ADDriver. In R1-6 ADAcquire was not initialized,
and if it had a non-zero value at iocInit then the IOC could crash with some drivers,
e.g. simDetector.</li>
<li>Pilatus driver. Added support for camserver saving data in the CBF file format,
which is ~4X smaller than TIFF, and for additional header information in the files
for crystallography. Thanks to Lewis Muir for these additions. Set FullFilename_RBV
for each file in a multi-image sequence, which was not previously being done.</li>
<li>Pilatus driver.
<ul>
<li>Added support for camserver saving data in the CBF file format, which is ~4X smaller
than TIFF, and for additional header information in the files for crystallography.
Thanks to Lewis Muir for these additions. </li>
<li>Set FullFilename_RBV for each file in a multi-image sequence, which was not previously
being done.</li>
<li>Several changes from Emma Shepherd at DLS to improve error handling.</li>
<li>Added GapFill record to control what value camserver puts in the data files in
the gaps between modules in multi-element Pilatus detectors.</li>
<li>Added ThresholdAutoApply and ThresholdApply records. These allow only sending
the gain and threshold energy once to camserver, rather than each time either is
changed. This can speed operations significantly on larger detectors. For example,
on the 6M it takes 78 seconds for camserver to execute the SetThreshold command.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Prosilica driver.
<ul>
<li>Added support for opening cameras by IP address or IP DNS name, in addition to
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</li>
<li>Plugins
<ul>
<li>New record in the NDPluginFile base class called DeleteDriverFile. This record allows
the file writing plugins to delete the "original" file that the driver created for
that array. This can be useful for detectors that must write the data to disk in order
for the areaDetector driver to read it back. Once a file-writing plugin has rewritten the
data in another format it can be desireable to then delete the original file. The file
is only deleted if the following are all true:
<li>New record in the NDPluginFile base class called DeleteDriverFile. This record
allows the file writing plugins to delete the "original" file that the driver created
for that array. This can be useful for detectors that must write the data to disk
in order for the areaDetector driver to read it back. Once a file-writing plugin
has rewritten the data in another format it can be desireable to then delete the
original file. The file is only deleted if the following are all true:
<ol>
<li>The DeleteDriverFile record is "Yes".</li>
<li>The file plugin has successfully written a new file.</li>
<li>The array contains an attribute called "DriverFileName" that contains the full
file name of the original file. The driver attributes XML file should contain a line
like the following:<br/>
<tt>&lt;Attribute name="DriverFileName" type="PARAM" source="FULL_FILE_NAME" datatype="string" description="Driver file name"/&gt;</tt><br/>
file name of the original file. The driver attributes XML file should contain a
line like the following:<br />
<tt>&lt;Attribute name="DriverFileName" type="PARAM" source="FULL_FILE_NAME" datatype="string"
description="Driver file name"/&gt;</tt><br />
</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>New file writing plugin, NDFileHDF5. This plugin writes HDF5 files with the native
HDF5 API, unlike the NeXus plugin which uses the NeXus API. It supports 3 types
of compression. Thanks to Ulrik Pedersen at Diamond Light Source for providing this