Fastest way to see which pixel has changed when using a listener - event-listener

Question

I am trying to get EDS spectra on every scanned pixel using STEM.
I am using the EDSStartAcquisition( 2048, 10,fexposure*2, 1) command and
I have attached the following simple listener object into the shown 1D spectrum image:
string messagemap = "data_value_changed:MyImageAction"
Class MyListenerClass1
{
String event_desc;
MyListenerClass1(Object self); //Result("\n");
~MyListenerClass1(Object self);// Result("\n");
Void MyImageAction(Object self, Number e_fl, Image Img)
{
ImageGetEventMap().DeconstructEventFlags( e_fl, event_desc )
Result(GetTime(1)+": Image message : " + event_desc + " 0x" + Binary(e_fl) + "\n" )
}
}
ListenerID1 = EDSIm.ImageAddEventListener( Listener1, messagemap)
Since speed is the issue here, I figured to try the continuous mode of the EDS acquisition. But then I would need to listen which counts belong to each scanned pixel. The following topic (How to getting acquired frames at full speed ? - Image Event Listener does not seem to be executing after every event) shows how to listen to the last pixel change of an image. But what would be the fastest way to directly see which slice of the 1D spectrum has changed on every event? Without going through every slice...
thanks in advance!

Answer 1

An images' data_value_changed is fired whenever a) an image locker (the object that ensures there is single access to the memory) is released, or b) a specific update-call is made in the code.
As such, when a cumulative EDS spectrum is acquired, the whole array gets "locked", then modified (on one or more positions) and then 'updated'. There is no specific information carried on where the array was modified.
Therefore, the only way to find out where the spectrum changed is by comparing a copy of the "before" with the "now" - which is not super efficient.