/matrixfilereader

Igor Pro XOP for reading Omicron MATRIX data using the Vernissage libraries

Primary LanguageC++OtherNOASSERTION

Installation

Requirements

  • Igor Pro 8.0 or later
  • Scienta Omicron Vernissage 2.4.1 (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • Windows 10

Steps

  1. Install Igor Pro
  2. Start Igor, this will create a folder called WaveMetrics in "My Documents"
  3. Install Vernissage
  4. Install vcredist_x86.exe/vcredist_x64.exe (Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package x86/x64) shipped with the XOP.
    1. Copy "matrixfilereader.xop" to "My Documents\WaveMetrics\Igor Pro X User Files\Igor extensions"
    2. Copy "matrixfilereader Help.ihf" to "My Documents\WaveMetrics\Igor Pro X User Files\Igor Help files"
  6. Restart Igor
  7. Load the experiment matrixfilereader-basic-gui.pxp which includes a basic GUI for easy access to the XOP operations.

Minimalistic GUI

GUI

Compilation

Requirements

  • Visual Studio 2013 Community/Professional with 1
  • Vernissage and the corresponding SDK
  • XOP Toolkit 8.01
  • Boost 1.55
  • Igor Pro

Steps

  • Close all Igor instances
  • Open MatrixFileReader.sln
  • Adjust the path where the XOP should be copied by editing copyfiles-32.bat/copyfiles-64.bat
  • Build it (Build->Rebuild Solution)
  • The XOP and the help file is automatically copied to the location given earlier

Various Hints

  • Always compile the "Release" version. The "Debug" version can not be used with the Vernissage DLLs.
  • If you want to add new operations have a look at Operation-Template-Generator.pxp which uses ParseOperationTemplate.
  • Each header file contains a small abstract about its purpose.
  • Boost can be compiled from a Visual Studio command prompt:
    • Apply the patch from 2
    • Compile 32-bit libraries
      • b2 -j6 toolset=msvc-12.0 variant=release threading=multi link=static runtime-link=shared stage
      • move stage stage-32bit
    • Compile 64-bit libraries
      • b2 -j6 toolset=msvc-12.0 address-model=64 variant=release threading=multi link=static runtime-link=shared stage
      • move stage stage-64bit
  • XOPSupport compilation itself can be done via cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013/cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013" -A x64 and cmake --build . --config release.

Testing

  • The unit and regression test suite requires our unit testing framework.
  • The test suite always finishes without errors.
  • The reference data is available upon request only as it is roughly 5GB.

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