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<title>areaDetectorReleaseNotes.html</title>
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<h1 style="text-align: center">
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areaDetector Release Notes</h1>
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<h2 style="text-align: center">
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Release 1-2 (19-Sept-2008)</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Major update to documentation</li>
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<li>Significant enhancement to ROI plugin. Added net counts, ROI highlighting.</li>
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<li>Added driver for Pilatus detectors</li>
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<li>Added driver for ADSC detectors (done by Lewis Muir, IMCA-CAT)</li>
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<li>Removed separate readback parameters in drivers and template files</li>
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<li>Changed from mbbi/mbbo records to bi/bo records where possible now that the asynInt32
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interface supports bi/bo records.</li>
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<li>Internals
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<ul>
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<li>Renamed asynParamBase to asynPortDriver.</li>
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<li>Renamed NDArrayBase to NDArrayDriver</li>
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<li>Renamed NDPluginBase to NDPluginDriver</li>
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<li>Renamed NDArrayBuff to NDArrayPool, now in NDArray.cpp.</li>
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<li>Renamed ADDriverBase to ADDriver</li>
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<li>Removed ADUtils</li>
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<li>The asynHandle interface in asyn was renamed to asynGenericPointer, many changes
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to incorporate this.</li>
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<li>Base class constructor no longer initializes all asyn interfaces, only the selected
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ones.</li>
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<li>NDArray pool is no longer global, each server creates its own pool if needed.</li>
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<li>Implemented real routines for writeInt32, writeFloat64, and writeOctet in asynPortDriver.cpp,
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removed them from ADDriver.cpp where they were not needed.</li>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 style="text-align: center">
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Release 1-1 (10-May-2008)</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Major rewrite. Converted device drivers and plugins from C to C++ with C++ base
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classes that handle many of the details of asyn and of callbacks and threading for
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plugins.</li>
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<li>Everything except device drivers and top-level EPICS databases and channel access
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clients are now fully N-dimensional, not restricted to 2-D.</li>
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<li>NDPluginFile now uses netCDF format, which is a portable self-describing binary
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file format.</li>
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<li>Added NDPluginROI which implements region-of-interest.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 style="text-align: center">
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Release 1-0 (11-Apr-2008)</h2>
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<li>Initial release, still many things remaining to be done.</li>
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</ul>
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<address>
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Suggestions and Comments to:
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<br />
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<a href="mailto:rivers@cars.uchicago.edu">Mark Rivers </a>: (rivers@cars.uchicago.edu)
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<br />
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</address>
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</html>
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