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Micro-Manager Documentation
Overview of the documentation
For a tutorial introduction for using Micro-Manager software you've
just downloaded, or to get an overview of its basic
capabilities, the User's
Guide is the best starting point.
Here you'll find out how to navigate through the application's menus
and dialogs and how to perform basic
instrument control and acquisition. The User's
Guide
assumes you are
running the software either in the "demo" mode (installation default),
or that you are working with a previously configured hardware setup.
Configuring Micro-Manager software to work with your
particular hardware setup is a separate topic, covered in detail in the
Configuration
Guide.
Micro-Manager uses configuration files in textual, human-readable form
to load appropriate device drivers and to adapt user interface to particular properties of your hardware setup.
The Configuration
Guide
explains how to write new configuration files, how to edit existing ones, and how to troubleshoot configuration-related
run-time errors.
Micro-Manager software is designed to
strictly separate the user interface from the functional core module. That
means that you can use its
comprehensive set of microscope control and image acquisition
commands from any Java program or Java-enabled scripting
environment, such as Matlab. In other words, you can bypass Micro-Manager's
default,
user interface and create your own, either in C++ or Java, or just
write scripts in Matlab, or some other compatible environment.
The Programming
Guide
describes how to use the Micro-Manager programmatic interface (API) and
demonstrates how to control the microscope setup from Java/C++ program or from the scripting environment. The entire API is listed in the API Reference in auto-generated Doxygen format. Device adapter authors will be intersted in the Device-API reference.
The latest changes in the documentation are maintained in the Micro-Manager Wiki. The Wiki can be edited by everyone, giving you the opportunity to share your new-found insights in Micro-Manager behavior and uses with others.
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