Adding a new camera (Mightex SB-series camera) adapter

[jintaozheng88]

Dear sir,

We (Mightex systems) add a new camera adapter (Mightex SB-series camera) in a new folder of \Mightex_SB_Cam under the \DeviceAdapters. Please note there're two low level DLLs under \Mightex_SB_Cam\lib64, these two DLL files have to be at the same dir of the adapter library file.
We didn't do any other modifications to other codes.
There're 3 previous commits which were for another LED driver adapter, but as the project was postponed...the adapter codes weren't added actually.

The product page of the SB cameras is as following:
https://www.mightexsystems.com/product/usb3-0-monochrome-or-color-1-5mp-global-shutter-cmos-camera-8-or-12-bit

The brief description of the SB camera adapter is as following:_
This Micro-Manager adapter can be used to operate Mightex SB-Series Camera. Please refer to Mightex SB-Series Camera user’s manual for more details of the camera control.
Mightex SB-Series cameras are USB3.0 cameras with Sony Sensor,The adapter has several properties that can be used to control the camera, with the property items, one can set parameters such as Resolution, Exposure Time, Gain, ROI, Offset_XY…etc. Note that the Exposure Time control has to set with the Property item (Not on the main window). It’s recommended for user to set full resolution when using SB-Series camera.

Thanks!

JT

[marktsuchida]

Thanks you. Would it be okay if I make some changes so that this code builds from the headers and libraries in your official SDK download (https://mightex.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SBCamera_Release_250108.zip)?

[jintaozheng88]

Sure, the header/libaries are the same as the SDK release, so please go ahead. Thanks!

[marktsuchida]

@jintaozheng88 Apologies for the long wait.

I have force-pushed to your branch to make the following changes:

• Skip the commits that added and then removed WheeLED
• Exclude the proprietary files (SB Camera SDK header and DLLs) from the history
• Adjust project settings to build using the header from 3rdparty (our private dependency repository)

Two things of note:

• I also removed the build.xml (which contained incorrect filenames anyway), because I think we'd rather not ship your DLLs with Micro-Manager (we don't want our installer to grow in size too much, and these things add up). Instead, I added user instructions on a device page (Add device page for Mightex_SB_Cam micro-manager.github.io#179). You can further edit this page by submitting a pull request.
• It looks like your official SDK does not contain the header SSBuffer_USBCamera_SDK_Stdcall.h. So I copied the version you had in this PR to 3rdparty. I did however check that the device loads (and says cannot communicate with device) using the DLLs from the official SDK. It would be nice if this header were included in future versions of your downloadable SDK so that people can build this device adapter themselves.

[jintaozheng88]

Thanks, Mark, will add the mentioned header file in our SDK in the future release.