This project is meant to serve as an example how to write plugin for micro-manager-2.0 using Gradle Kotlin build system in a mordern IDE such as IntelliJ.
Install Micro-Manager 2.0 from https://micro-manager.org/Download_Micro-Manager_Latest_Release.
You can use suggested JDK from as suggested your system to work with JDK 2.0 from https://micro-manager.org/Writing_plugins_for_Micro-Manager#setting-up-to-write-debug-and-package-plugins.
You can also install your JDK of your choice to see if it works.
Use command .\gradlew build
Or use IDE convenient tools to build jar.
After the build, a file will be generated at ./build/libs/MMPlugInSample-1.0.jar.
Copy this file and add it to mmplugins directory. In Windows, it should be located at C:\Program Files\Micro-Manager-2.0\mmplugins.
You should be able to find the plugin at Plugins | Developer Tools | Hello, World! once you configure Micro-Manager.
The location of the plugin is defined by your code at ./src/main/java/com/example/helloworld/HelloWorldPlugin.java. See comments there.
You can find more examples at https://github.com/micro-manager/micro-manager/tree/main/plugins. The code in this example project is from https://github.com/micro-manager/micro-manager/tree/main/plugins/HelloWorld.
- I have Windows 10 Pro but any Windows system should work with this project. (Not sure how it will behave on a Unix)
- I am using JDK temurin-1.8 from https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=8&package=jdk&arch=x64&os=windows as suggested here https://micro-manager.org/Writing_plugins_for_Micro-Manager. But other JDK might work as well.