From 1d82a04f4b944618dd635bb50f99b180a8148364 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brandon <brandon@asiimaging.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:38:44 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] support multiple cameras and multiple channels together

---
 .../lightsheetmanager/LightSheetManager.java           |  6 +++++-
 .../model/acquisitions/LSMAcquisitionEvents.java       | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/micromanager/lightsheetmanager/LightSheetManager.java b/src/main/java/org/micromanager/lightsheetmanager/LightSheetManager.java
index 5f9354b..6655695 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/micromanager/lightsheetmanager/LightSheetManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/micromanager/lightsheetmanager/LightSheetManager.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import org.micromanager.lightsheetmanager.api.data.GeometryType;
 import org.micromanager.lightsheetmanager.model.DeviceManager;
 import org.micromanager.lightsheetmanager.model.PluginSettings;
+import org.micromanager.lightsheetmanager.model.acquisitions.LSMAcquisitionEvents;
 import org.micromanager.lightsheetmanager.model.positions.PositionUpdater;
 import org.micromanager.lightsheetmanager.model.UserSettings;
 import org.micromanager.lightsheetmanager.model.acquisitions.AcquisitionEngine;
@@ -30,7 +31,6 @@ public class LightSheetManager implements LightSheetManagerAPI {
     private final DeviceManager deviceManager_;
     private final PositionUpdater positionUpdater_;
 
-
     private AcquisitionEngine acqEngine_;
     //private final AcquisitionTableData acqTableData_;
 
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ public boolean setup() {
         // load settings
         userSettings_.load();
 
+        // TODO: put this somewhere better, need to put this value into LSMAcquisitionEvents for now
+        LSMAcquisitionEvents.isUsingMultipleCameras =
+              deviceManager_.getDeviceAdapter().getNumSimultaneousCameras() > 1;
+
         // if we made it here then everything loaded correctly
         return true;
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/micromanager/lightsheetmanager/model/acquisitions/LSMAcquisitionEvents.java b/src/main/java/org/micromanager/lightsheetmanager/model/acquisitions/LSMAcquisitionEvents.java
index 67b296d..be32285 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/micromanager/lightsheetmanager/model/acquisitions/LSMAcquisitionEvents.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/micromanager/lightsheetmanager/model/acquisitions/LSMAcquisitionEvents.java
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ public class LSMAcquisitionEvents {
    public static final String POSITION_AXIS = "position";
    public static final String CAMERA_AXIS = "channel";
 
+   public static int currentChannelIndex_ = 0;
+   public static boolean isUsingMultipleCameras = false;
 
    public static Iterator<AcquisitionEvent> createTimelapseMultiChannelVolumeAcqEvents(
            AcquisitionEvent baseEvent, DefaultAcquisitionSettingsSCAPE acquisitionSettings,
@@ -181,7 +183,11 @@ public boolean hasNext() {
          public AcquisitionEvent next() {
             AcquisitionEvent cameraEvent = event.copy();
             cameraEvent.setCameraDeviceName(cameraDeviceNames_[cameraIndex_]);
-            cameraEvent.setAxisPosition(CAMERA_AXIS, cameraIndex_);
+            if (isUsingMultipleCameras) {
+               cameraEvent.setAxisPosition(CAMERA_AXIS, cameraIndex_ + (currentChannelIndex_ * cameraDeviceNames_.length));
+            } else {
+               cameraEvent.setAxisPosition(CAMERA_AXIS, cameraIndex_);
+            }
             cameraIndex_++;
             return cameraEvent;
          }
@@ -257,7 +263,7 @@ public AcquisitionEvent next() {
             channelEvent.setConfigGroup(channelList[index].getGroup());
             channelEvent.setConfigPreset(channelList[index].getName());
             channelEvent.setChannelName(Integer.toString(index));
-            //channelEvent.setChannelName(channelList[index].getName());
+            currentChannelIndex_ = index;
 
             double zPos;
             if (channelEvent.getZPosition() == null) {