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areaDetector / ADGenICam

areaDetector base class for GenICam cameras.
https://areadetector.github.io/master/ADGenICam/ADGenICam.html
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Adding files for allied vision 1800 u811m camera #26

Closed jwlodek closed 12 months ago

jwlodek commented 2 years ago

Adding files for allied vision 1800 u811m camera

Ran into the following generating said files:

[jwlodek@xf28idd-ioc1 scripts]$ python3 makeDb.py ../xml/Allied_Vision_1800_U-811m.xml test.template
Don't know what to do with String
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Don't know what to do with String
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Don't know what to do with String
More than 16 enum entries for PixelFormat mbbi record, discarding additional options.
   If needed, edit the Enumeration tag for PixelFormat to select the 16 you want.
More than 16 enum entries for LineSource mbbi record, discarding additional options.
   If needed, edit the Enumeration tag for LineSource to select the 16 you want.
Don't know what to do with Register
More than 16 enum entries for CustomConvolutionValueSelector mbbi record, discarding additional options.
   If needed, edit the Enumeration tag for CustomConvolutionValueSelector to select the 16 you want.

Also needed to build a newer version of aravis and the arv-tool to get "String" features to work correctly - most likely a new addition to the standard?

MarkRivers commented 2 years ago

What are String features used for? Should we be creating records and OPI screen widgets for String features?

MarkRivers commented 2 years ago

Is String part of the GenICam standard, or is it an Allied Vision extension?

MarkRivers commented 2 years ago

Also needed to build a newer version of aravis and the arv-tool to get "String" features to work correctly - most likely a new addition to the standard?

What version of aravis did you use?

jwlodek commented 2 years ago

I built the master branch of Aravis from github, but I believe the relevant commits/PR is here: https://github.com/AravisProject/aravis/pull/508

The older installation of aravis v0.8 did not handle the String features correctly. I am fairly sure this is a GenICam standard, or at least that is how the aravis maintainers have mentioned it. In this case I was trying to find the camera Serial Number, which was labelled as a "String" feature, and didn't appear to arv-tool till I upgraded.

MarkRivers commented 2 years ago

I just looked at the aravis release notes. GenICam String support was added in ARAVIS_0_8_10 on may 12, 2021. The current release is 0.8.21.