rydeen777/micro-manager

Microscope control and image acquisition integrated with ImageJ

Micro-Manager

Micro-Manager is an application to control microscope hardware, such as cameras, xy-stages, filter wheels, etc.. It includes a hardware abstraction layer written in C++ and a user interface written in Java (Swing). User and developer documentation can be found at https://micro-manager.org.

Branches

The "master" branch of the micro-manager respository is used to build version 2.0-gamma (binaries can be download from micro-manager.org). The branch "svn-mirror" tracks the subversion repository at https://valelab4.ucsf.edu/svn/micromanager2/trunk/ that contains the source code for Micro-Manager 1.4.

This repository uses submodules. MMCore, MMDevice, and DeviceAdapters are now part of the mmCoreAndDevices submodule.

Getting the source code

To get the complete source code follow these instructions:

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/micro-manager/micro-manager.git
2. Move Git bash into the repository: cd micro-manager
3. Make sure any submodules are also cloned: git submodule update --init --recursive
   For more information about working with Git submodules click here.
   (Previously we recommended using the --remote flag when updating the submodule(s). This is no longer necessary and should be avoided.)

Maintainers only: Some vendors do not allow us to make public device adapters written for their equipment. If you are part of the micro-manager group, you can get access to these "secret" device adapters by:

1. Move Git bash into the mmCoreAndDevices submodule: cd mmCoreAndDevices
2. Change to the "privateMain" branch: git checkout privateMain
3. "privateMain" has a submodule that main does not. Make sure that any new submodules are in a consistent state: git submodule update --init --recursive --remote
   For more information about working with Git submodules click here.

For licensing information, please see doc/copyright.txt.

For build instructions, please see the doc/how-to-build.md.

Additional information is available on the Micro-Manager website at https://micro-manager.org

Contributing

Start here: https://micro-manager.org/How_to_debug_and_develop_MM2.0