Specifications

to provide information about available filters (if the particular camera has the
integrated filter wheel, of course). But the user can order camera with various
filters, or he or she can change individual filters or the whole filter wheel etc.
There is no way how to determine the actual filters in the filter wheel
automatically. This is why the G2 CCD camera driver for SIMS reads the
“g2ccd2.ini” or “g3ccd.ini” (depending on the camera revision) file to
determine actual configuration of filters, which will be then reported to SIMS.
The “g2ccd2.ini” or “g3ccd.ini” file is placed in the same directory where the
G2 CCD driver and the SIMS itself is installed. This file is ordinary text file
following the .INI files conventions. Here is the example of the “g2ccd2.ini”:
[filters]
Luminance, Gray
Red, LRed
Green, LGreen
Blue, LBlue
Clear, 0
The file should contain just one section “[filters]” (other sections, if present, are
ignored). Every line in this section defines one filter position. The first string
defines the filter name, which will be displayed in various parts of the SIMS
GUI or will be part of file name of acquired images (if the user chooses
including of filter name to file name). The second parameter, delimited by
comma, represents a color by which the string is displayed. The color can be
expressed by a name (White, Red, LRed, etc.) or directly by number
representing the particular color (0 represents black).
The above mentioned information will be displayed e.g. in the filter-choosing
combo-box in the SIMS control software this way:
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