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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 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.
Configuration
Guide
explains how to write new, edit existing
configuration files and how to troubleshoot configuration related
run-time errors.
Micro-Manager software is designed to
strictly separate 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-enable scripting
environment such as Matlab. In other words, you can bypass its
default,
user interface and create your own, either in C++ or Java, or just
write scripts in Matlab, or some other compatible environment.
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.
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