[Ifeffit] the development branch of Artemis
Bruce Ravel
ravel at phys.washington.edu
Mon Aug 30 14:34:24 CDT 2004
Hi!
As I mentioned in my last email, today's source code release includes
the new development branch of Artemis. As I said about a month ago, I
am now maintaining a stable branch, which will usually only get bug
fixes, and a development branch, which is where I will be working on
new features.
I put a few notes and a screenshot on my Artemis page:
http://leonardo.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/aboutartemis.html
scroll down to the middle of the page. There is a box labeled
"Development Branch".
I want to clarify how this is going to work:
1. The source tarball has both branches and both get built and
installed. The development version gets installed as "diana".
This allows you to try out the development version but still have
the stable version to fall back on.
2. I don't intend to build Windows executables of the development
version until it is almost ready for normal release. This is in
part to save myself some work and in part to keep the development
branch out of wide use until it has been much better tested.
3. The development version involves some changes to the project file
format. It will read projects from the stable version, but some
information will get lost in the other direction.
4. If you use the development version, you should anticipate that
there will be problems and be prepared to submit good, clear,
helpful bug reports. If you expect stable behavior, use the
stable version. That said, I have been using the development
version for my own analysis. It ain't perfect, but I am getting
work done.
Here are a few notes to get you started with the new features. You
might want to go take a look at the screenshot on the Artemis web
page.
1. The window is much larger now. This takes up more screen real
estate, but the paths list is much taller. The blank area in
the lower right hand corner will get filled with new plotting
controls in the future.
2. Fits get added to the Data and Paths List as seen in the screen
shot. Old fits are plotted just like anything else -- just select
it and click a plot button.
3. Background functions and residuals can still be plotted, but they
are no longer displayed in the Data and Paths List. Now to get a
bkg or res plot, click the check buttons in the plot controls
panel. Whenever you plot a fit, the background and residual
functions from that fit will be plotted along with best fit
function.
4. When you click on a fit entry, the main panel will display a tool
for viewing and exploring the log files from the fits you have
done. This is essentially the same as the log viewer that Stefano
was asking about last week. There is a list of fits on the left
side of the panel -- double-click and right-click are both
useful. The main use of this page is to write little reports
about parameters so you can compare your various fits. Fits are
included into reports by selecting them from the list on the left
and not by selecting them from the Data and Path List.
5. In many situations (plotting, saving files, etc) selecting the
head of the fit branch means to use the most recent fit.
Selecting both the head of the fit branch and the most recent fit
is redundant, but should not cause any problems.
6. The fit entries in the Data and Paths List may behave a little
surprisingly in the case of a multiple data set fit. Some things,
like plotting, depend upon which data set the selected list item
is under. Other things, like discarding a fit, will effect every
data set.
7. In the upper right corner is a little box which tells you when you
have modified your project and, therefore, might want to consider
saving it. Keep an eye on that box and let me know if there are
situations where it gets set incorrectly.
8. I have written some documentation for viewing inside Artemis.
There are lots of buttons scattered around the program for
displaying context appropriate documentation (you can see a couple
in the screenshot). Feel free to read through this and suggest
ways to improve upon it or even write some of it yourself! Lots
of the documentation is still unwritten.
Things that don't work correctly yet that I know about:
1. Saving fits to multi-column files certainly doesn't work. Saving
individual fits to column data files should work.
2. Hiding individual or selected fits (see the Fit menu) is flaky.
Things to remember about using the development branch:
1. You can always go back to the stable branch, they are installed
side-by-side.
2. It's a development branch -- it's going to have lots of bugs.
3. I want to hear about your problems and your suggestions for new &
better features.
Have fun!
B
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Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel at phys.washington.edu
Code 6134, Building 3, Room 405
Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 2268
Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 4642
NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC)
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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/
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