Teledyne Princeton Instruments PICam 5.x, Programmer'S Manual

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Appendix E: PICam 5.0 Compatibility
Issues
Beginning with PICam 5.0, usage of the suite of Left/Right Margin Parameters has been
modified for scenarios where Readout Orientation is not Normal. Specifically, the
parameter
PicamParameter_ReadoutOrientation
does not have the value
PicamOrientationMask_Normal
. Originally, the Left/Right Margin parameters would
swap positions in this scenario. However, this is incorrect and has been fixed to their
proper locations.
The specific set of parameters impacted by this change varies by camera/system, and
the default value for each impacted parameter has been properly updated. Although it
is extremely rare to either change these parameters or make coding decisions based on
their values, if either of these have been implemented, information is provided in the
following sections with suggestions about required code updates when upgrading to
PICam 5.0.
E.1 FERGIE: 256F/FT, FERGIE: 256B/FT, FERGIE: 256BR/FT, and
eXcelon Variant Cameras
This section provides information necessary to update customer-modified code (PICam
4.x and older) for the following cameras in order for it to work as designed with PICam
5.0:
E.1.1 What Changed with PICam 5.0?
In PICam 5.0, the following parameters have been swapped:
•
PicamParameter_ActiveLeftMargin
and
PicamParameter_ActiveRightMargin
By default, these two parameters remain symmetric, so programs will break only when
one, or both, of these parameters have been set asymmetrically.
• FERGIE: 256F/FT;
• FERGIE: 256B/FT;
• FERGIE: 256BR/FT;
• eXcelon Variants.