GDA 8.6 (released 11/Jun/2010)

• GDA-3209: Removed bodges in ScanDataPoint and ContinuousScan that account for detectors with improperly set outputFormats. ScanDataPoint.toString() will magically work if extraNames returns String[] {"%s"}. Better still, see instructions from the GDA 8.2 release notes to actually properly configure extraNames.
• GDA-3193: In gdascripts.scannable.detector.ProcessingDetectorWrapper removed BodgedProcessingDetectorWrapperWithRobustLoading and BodgedProcessingDetectorWrapper. Functionality can be configured in ProcessingDetectorWrapper‘s constructor: robust loading will be used if fileLoadTimout is set; file paths will be bodged to numbers if returnPathAsImageNumberOnly is true.
• GDA-2822: changed the isPositionValid method in Scannable to checkPositionValid - the new method returns a String instead of a boolean to enable better reporting of invalid positions to users.
• GDA-3222: when a scan is halted prematurely by user stopping it or by an error, stop will be called on all detectors in the scans as well as all scannables.
• GDA-3248: The Rich Bean Framework now writes the XML files it creates to a folder called xml which is at the top-level of the visit’s data directory instead of being stored inside the visit’s workspace folder. This makes manual editing of the XML files easier and allows for deletion of the workspace should it become corrupted without loss of the XML files.