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.
5. 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

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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