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QuickFrog Functionality and Features

The following table shows the features added to QuickFrog over the years.

Version New Features Fixes
5.2.0
Dec. 26, 2011
  • Added support for 64-bit computers for both uEye and JAI cameras
  • Updated uEye drivers to 3.90
  • Changed Start Menu items to be compatible with Femtosoft's FROG program
  • Changed QuickFrogSuperDebug to use java instead of javaw so that the window won't disappear
    • Changed camera driver layer for uEye cameras to avoid the problem of the camera stopping delivering frames after 20-30 seconds
    5.1.0
    July 24, 2011
  • QuickFrog no longer installs the IDS uEye USB drivers automatically. Instead, the IDS installer program is included on the CD, and users must run this program separately to install the drivers.
  • Added ability to filter out a single FSR for nanosecond devices (as of this release, no GRENOUILLE model supports this mode)
  • Changed temporal and spectral plots to use the colors that GA tech uses
  • Added version number to log file
  • Added a popup menu to all the frames to allow saving of data.
  • Added capability to email log files directly to Femtosoft
  • Used a different color scale in Space mode
  • Changed frequency scale to GHz when using ns units for time
  • Made the wavelength axes show more sig figs when range is small.
  • Added visible color scales in space and time mode
  • Added saving of color scales
  • Added saving of interesting frames
  • Try to continue if a two-camera system only has one camera plugged in
    • Home directories with a space in them might prevent QF from starting
    • Guarded against negative time delays being output by datasaver
    5.0.1
    Aug 21, 2010
     
    • Fixed bug that prevented movie playback.
    • Fixed calculation of movie frame number when two movies are played in succession
    5.0.0
    May 23, 2010
    • QuickFrog Lite, reduced feature set version
    • IDS uEye Camera driver installer no longer pauses on success
    • Demo mode no longer tries to read EEPROM of uEye camera
    4.3.0
    Nov. 11, 2009
    • Read in model configuration from USB cameras, as programmed at the factory by Swamp Optics
    • Simultaneous display of time and space cameras for two-camera models
    • Added support for the JAI Pulnix RM-1405GE UV camera
    • Fixed bug in Vista that prevented prefrerences from being saved
    • Updated pulse front tilt calculations
    • Fixed installer so that the log file directory is created correctly on Vista
    • Fixed bug that prevented systems with two different model cameras to not work properly (or at all)
    • Fixed bug that caused the splash screen to sometimes show a grey box instead of the splash screen
    4.2.1
    Feb. 10, 2009
     
    • Fixed demo installer
    • Fixed minor bug that might cause exceptions to be thrown on models without point-spread function files.
    4.2.0
    Dec 28, 2008
    • Added spectral deconvolution routine
    • Added ability to trigger a data save automatically via HTTP
    • Added custom camera models
     
    4.1.1
    May 14, 2008
     
    • Fixed bug that prevented operation on Windows Vista
    • Fixed bug that prevented Firewire Framegrabber from working properly
    4.1.0
    Jan. 19, 2008
    • Added support for GRENOUILLEs that have two different type or orientation cameras.
     
    4.0.1
    Sep. 1, 2007
     
    • Fixed small bug that prevented movies taken with USB cameras from being played back
    • Fixed major bug that caused incorrect calibrations to be used with most models.
    4.0.0
    Apr. 15, 2007
    • Support for the IDS uEye USB camera, which supports triggered mode
    • Addition of the PG FROG algorithm
    • More robust BMP saving of data files
    • Adjustable, repeatable single shot mode.
    • Crosshair mode in Space mode, without center-of-mass crosshairs of the pulse.
    • Saves screenshot as a bmp file when saving data with File -> Save.
    • Added a little more space at the bottom of the images for the pixel readout display.
    • Added a saturation indicator to Space Mode
    • Added ability to shut monitor window using the little x at the top corner
    • Added pixel readout to slice cursors in Space Mode
    • Analog scale widget for displaying results
    • Spatial chirp correction and calculation settings saved in movies
    • Added damped automatic background subtraction mode to prevent jittery flashes
    • Added manual background subtraction mode
    • Nicer error message if non-movie file is opened
    • Autocorrelation window begins iconified (speed up the UI ever so slightly)
    • Fixed bug that could result in program lockup when a fully saturated frame is received.
    3.1.0
    Jun. 18, 2006
    • Spatial chirp and pulsefront tilt calculations.
    • Frame-summing.
    • Save raw data as BMP files.
    • Upgrade to lastest version of framgrabber drivers.
    • Fixed a bug that caused the field data written to disc to have the wrong phase (real and imaginary parts were correct).
    3.0.1
    June 8, 2005
     
    • Fixed a bug that prevented the HTTP data export feature from working.
    • Made the default for spatial alignment checking to be "off" - slow switching between the two channels of the framegrabber was causing problems.
    3.0.0
    May 5, 2005
    • 3D Plotting.
    • Self-diffraction (SD) FROG.
    • Current retrieved E-field is exported via XML over HTTP (for use by programs driving a pulse shaper, for example).
    • Plots of the difference between the retrieved and measured traces.
    • Bad frame rejection for low rep-rate lasers.
    • Cool movie playback widget.
    • Nifty splash screen.
     
    2.0
    Oct. 7, 2004
    • Automatic background subtraction.
    • Automatic selection of data collection area.
    • Data quality alerts - lets you know when data quality begins to suffer.
    • Better tools for alignment - crosshairs pinpoint the center of the camera's data.
    • Display units in either femtoseconds or picoseconds.
    • Dynamic update of configuration files over the internet.
    • Inclusion of special correction factors developed by Swamp Optics
    • Removed spatial chirp calculations due to controversy over how to calculate them correctly.
    1.0.1
    5/9/04
     
    • Fixed Problems in the installation scripts.
    1.0
    Mar. 12, 2004
    • The basic QuickFrog feature set.
     

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