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Change Log

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(0.7) - 2022-5-29

Added

  • New drivers: - Keysight 81160A (thanks Sylvain Pelissier) - Tektronix MSO/DPO 3000 series oscilloscopes - Mad City Labs NanoDrive (thanks Sébastien Weber) - SmarAct SCU (thanks Sébastien Weber) - ThorLabs TLPM power meter (thanks Sébastien Weber)
  • Exposure Facet for uc480 (thanks Sébastien Weber)
  • Multi device NIDAQ Tasks (thanks Luka Skoric)

Changed

  • Define _MSC_VER in tlccs driver to fix choice of typedefs
  • Fix Rigol function generator detection
  • Overhauled Picam driver - Now uses Camera interface - Added Linux support - Added to the docs
  • Linked driver development references to the corresponding function/method/class (thanks Drew Risinger)

Removed

  • Use of deprecated matplotlib.cbook.is_string_like

(0.6) - 2020-8-29

Added

  • Groundwork for generic Thorlabs Kinesis support
  • Support for simulated Kinesis instruments
  • New drivers: - Agilent 33250A - Agilent E4400B signal generator - Agilent MXG signal generators - GW Instek GPD-3303S programmable linear DC power supply - ILX Lightwave 3724B laser diode controller - Newmark NSC-A1 single axis USB stepper motor controller - Rigol DS1000Z series oscilloscopes - Rigol DP700 series power supplies - Rohde & Schwarz FSEA 20 spectrum analyzer - Stanford Research Systems SR844 lock-in amplifier - Tektronix TDS7154 oscilloscopes - Thorlabs APT (for non-Windows-exclusive control of devices)
  • Support for more models of Tektronix oscilloscope
  • load_csv() function for Tektronix oscilloscopes
  • Async functions for pulling data from Tektronix oscilloscopes
  • Helper function for getting a valid power from the Newport 1830-C
  • Better trigger support for NI DAQs
  • Pixelclock support for cameras.uc480
  • Support for loading saved instruments from an external driver
  • Transaction context manager for VisaMixin
  • Facet-related: - ManualFacet - FacetGroup - Simple observer/callback pattern

Changed

  • Fixed several uses of buffer/memoryview for Py2/3 compat
  • Updated Picam driver to be compatible with newer NiceLib versions
  • Fixed Py2/3 compat in remote module
  • Converted more modules to use new log module
  • Config directory changed to lowercase
  • Stabilized the order of entries generated in driver_info.py
  • Improved uc480 error handling (#94)
  • Fixed error for PCO cameras without ROI support (#104)
  • Improved PCO camera support (thanks Zak Vendeiro)

Removed

(0.5) - 2018-2-20

Added

  • Explicit support for Tektronix TDS 200, 3000, and MSO/DPO 4000 series scopes
  • visa_context context manager
  • More properties and Facets to scopes.tektronix
  • More properties and Facets to cameras.uc480
  • log module with log_to_screen() function
  • tempcontrollers.covesion driver
  • tempcontrollers.hcphotonics driver
  • Special _close_resource method for visa instruments
  • Import annotations for specifying driver reqs
  • Instrument class-embedded _INSTR_ attributes

Changed

  • Fixed some latent color/buffer issues in cameras.uc480's load_params()
  • Hid PCO camera scan dialog
  • Sped up check_units() and unit_mag()
  • Added NiceLib header-cleanup hooks for recent changes to kinesis headers
  • Converted NiceLib drivers to use NiceLib 0.5
  • Added bounds handling to TekScope.get_data()

Removed

(0.4.2) - 2017-11-14

Changed

  • Fixed bug list_instruments() bug introduced in 0.4.1
  • Updated more documentation

(0.4.1) - 2017-11-14

Added

  • Filtering of VISA instruments by module in list_instruments()

Changed

  • Fixed start_live_video AOI bug in cameras.uc480 (Issue #33, thanks Ivan Galinskiy)

(0.4) - 2017-11-13

Added

  • User-configurable driver blacklist for list_instruments()
  • New parameter system using the new ParamSet class
  • Convenience module for parsing and analyzing driver modules
  • Default implementation of _instrument() for drivers
  • LibError exception type for propagating errors from wrapped libs
  • Default context manager in Instrument base class
  • Auto-closing at exit of instruments inheriting from Instrument
  • visa_timeout_context context manager for setting VISA timeout
  • Windows-based testing via AppVeyor
  • Driver for the Princeton Instruments PICam interface
  • Support for NI-DAQmx Base in the existing driver
  • Context manager for daq.ni Tasks
  • VisaMixin instrument mixin class
  • ``Facet``s
  • A deprecation decorator
  • Automatic PyPI deployment via TravisCI and AppVeyor

Changed

  • Converted most drivers to use the new parameter system
  • Reimplemented list_visa_instruments using a generator
  • Improved developer-related docs
  • Various improvements and bugfixes to daq.ni
  • Fixed bug in cameras.pixelfly doubleshutter mode

Removed

  • _ParamDict class

(0.3.1) - 2017-06-26

Added

  • .travis.yml
  • setup.cfg

Changed

  • Fixed PyPI packaging whoopsie from 0.3

(0.3) - 2017-06-23

Added

  • Package metadata now (mostly) consolidated in __about__.py
  • Support for DAQmx internal channels
  • New NI driver, written using NiceLib, no longer requires PyDAQmx
  • PCO: - Software ROI - Trigger mode support - Hotpixel correction
  • Pixelfly: - Software ROI - Quantum efficiency functions - Multi-buffer capture sequences
  • Driver for Thorlabs FilterFlipper
  • Driver for Thorlabs TDC001
  • Driver for SRS SR850 lock-in amplifier
  • Driver for Attocube ECC100
  • Driver for Toptica FemtoFErb
  • Driver for Thorlabs CCS specrometers
  • Driver for Thorlabs TSI camera SDK
  • Driver for HP 34401A Multimeter
  • Driver for Thorlabs K10CR1 rotation stages
  • Driver for modded SenTorr ion gauge
  • Support for sharing instruments/objects across multiple clients of an Instrumental server

Changed

  • Check for IDS library if Thorlabs uc480 dll isn't found (Issue #6, thanks Chris Timossi)
  • u refers to Pint's _DEFAULT_REGISTRY, making unpickling easier
  • Fixed random assignment of DAQmx channels (Issue #15)
  • Allow use of naked zeroes in check_units()
  • Use decorator module to preserve function signatures for wrapped functions
  • Moved DEFAULT_KWDS into the Camera class
  • Renamed check_enum() to as_enum()
  • Converted PCO driver to use NiceLib
  • Converted NI driver to use NiceLib
  • Converted Pixelfly driver to use NiceLib
  • Converted UC480 driver to use NiceLib
  • Improved error messages
  • Added filtering of modules in list_instruments()
  • Added some fixes to improve Python 3 support
  • Switched to using qtpy for handling Qt compatibility
  • Added subsampling support to UC480 driver
  • Added proper connection closing for PM100D power meters
  • Documentation improvements

Removed

  • The NiceLib framework grew significantly and was split off into its own separate project
  • The optics package was split off into a separate project named lentil

(0.2.1) - 2016-01-13

Added

  • Support for building cffi modules via setuptools
  • Packaging support

Changed

  • instrumental.conf is now installed upon first-use. This allows us to eliminate the post_install script. Hopefully there will be future support (via wheels) to do this upon install instead
  • slightly better error message for failure when importing a specified module in instrument()

Removed

  • Outdated example scripts

(0.2) - 2015-12-15

Added

  • Everything, technically, but recent changes include:
  • NiceLib, a class to aid wrapping typical DLLs
  • Unit-checking decorators
  • RemoteInstrument for using instruments controlled by a separate computer

Changed

  • Camera class is now an abstract base class with abstract methods and properties

Removed

  • FakeVISA (in favor of RemoteInstrument)