User control over fluorescence windowMX Meetings -- January 12, 2000
MX Crystallography Controls Meeting -- 10:00 a.m. to noon
In Attendance: John Quintana, James Fait, Bill Lavender, Andy Howard, John Chrzas, Cristopf Lazarski, Lisa Keefe, Gerd Rosenbaum.
GUI Detail Issues
User control over fluorescence window
Automation of saturation setup
Analysis and setup for multiple peaks due to multiple absorbing species
Automatic setup of shaping times for Amp-Tek, etc.
Independent exposure shutter control
A & B Hutch shutter control
Estimate of scan time remaining
Rewrite BENNY to reduce GUI peculiarities.
Include distant points in scan for interpolation of remote values.
Transmit f', f", edge, peak, etc. information to image headers
Staff control over ACL's
Larger Issues
Web based tools in addition to tcl-tk front end
Integration with detector system
Crystallographic Binary File or mmCIF compliance
STAR-compliant sample data file for transmission of information from fluorescence GUI to data acquisition:
absorbing_element = Se;
absorber_peak = {
fprime = -8.36;
fdoubleprime = 6.15
energy = 12659.2;
wavelength = 0.9793908;
};
absorber_low = {
…
…
…
};
…
Architecture: who drives who (control vs. data collection )
Security And Primacy:
--- should multiple workstations and applications have simultaneous control?
--- how to enforce restrictions
Could an optimization involve a script of commands rather than a single scan? Possibly a TCL script based optimize functionality.
MX Core Functionality Meeting -- 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
In Attendance: John Quintana, James Fait, Bill Lavender, Andy Howard, Cristopf Lazarski, Gerd Rosenbaum, Carlo Segre, Ivan Ivanov, Nadia Leyarovska
Description of MX internals
Overlay of c MX_RECORD structure with "record.field" text access mechanism
How to set up and execute a scan in either c or tcl by both brute force and using the record mechanism.
Relationship between a scan and the motors used in it
Building an MX application
The laundry list of interface types, motor types, etc
Relationships among the various layers
libmx
Possible Needs and Issues
Database building tools
Detailed API documentation
Version Control
How many servers on a beamline?
Reconnection of client after server communications loss
psudomotor to spawn child process or otherwise interact with an external process
User Interface Wish List
Dropdown Combos for motors and devices in scan setup GUI
Dynamic labels for records (devices, variables,…)
Next Meeting -- about April 10, 2000
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