Hi Folks, I have just posted new source tarballs and windows executables for both athena and artemis. Both packages have significant new features and bug fixes. Please read the two special notes at the end of this announcement regarding a couple of bugs that I know about. I will be on vacation the rest of this week -- so I don't want anyone finding new bugs until next week! Athena: 1. fixed a problem that prevented one from plotting a chi(k) record (such as from feff's chi.dat file) 2. fixed a problem in which unmatched parentheses in the header of a data file would seemingly cause Athena to hang. Please note, that this was fixed by having Athena append the necessary close parens to title lines with unmatched open parens (i.e. by having Athena alter some title lines!) 3. Several usability improvements, including ability to specify a data or project file from the command line, remembering preprocessing parameters between files, and remembering the name of an input project file and using it as the default for saving a project file. 4. When records are saved as mu(E) or norm(E) column data, the e0 shift is applied before saving 5. project files now identify the operating system, perl version, and ifeffit version used to create the file. This makes project files more useful to me when submitting them with bug reports. (This was done without affecting compatibility in either direction.) (This is also a new feature in Artemis.) 6. several minor bug fixes Artemis: 1. The big box on the feff page is now filled with a schematic interpretation of the feff calculation. SS and colinear MS paths are highlighted and right-mouse clicking over a path description pops up a useful menu http://leonardo.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/images/artemis/art... 2. Began work on a templating system. This means that you can read in some data and a feff calculation, then select, say, the "FirstShell" template and Artemis will fill in guess, set, and path parameters with a model that should run to completion and may even be a decent stab at the fit you want to do. Note that the "Templates" menu does nothing on Windows at this time. Although this is undocumented, you can poke at it to see how it works. 3. Changed the color of the "fit" and "ff2chi" buttons. (See the screenshot mentioned above) 4. Several bug fixes and minor usability improvements. For complete details see the change logs in the tarballs or at http://leonardo.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/notes/ OSX users: It is the intended behavior of Athena and Artemis to remember the path whenever you use a file dialog and to use that path as the default the next time you use a file dialog. I am told that Athena does not behave this way on OSX. I am aware of the problem, but have not yet worked to fix it. All users: On your computer, there are probably a few seconds between the outline of Athena or Artemis window appearing on your screen and having all the features of the window be completely rendered. In that time, it is tempting to "jump the gun" and hit control-f so that the file dialog will appear just as soon as perl/Tk finishes rendering all the widgets. Doing this cause a minor race condition that will impede Athena's ability to monitor how much memory you are using and cause many scary-looking messages to be written to standard output. I haven't figured out how to prevent one from doing this, so my advice for the moment is to be patient and let the program finish rendering before using keyboard shortcuts. Regards, B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 222 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 5947 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 1697 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b, X24c, U4b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/