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Software Description
4.1.2 Action menus
The server program normally is shown as an icon in the taskbar. After clicking the icon it is opened to show
the status window. Using the “
Start ” menu item from the Action1 menu a measurement can be started. In the
status window every second the acquired events, the counting rate and the time are shown. Clicking the
“
Halt ” menu item the measurement is stopped and via “ Continue ” proceeded. As it is possible in the System
Settings dialog to create up to four systems each containing different MCA's combined for simultaneous
starting and stopping, there are four Action menus Action1..Action4.
4.1.3 File menu
Clicking in the File menu on the Data... item opens the Data Operations dialog box.
This dialog allows to edit the data format settings and perform operations like Save, Load, Add, Subtract,
Smooth and Erase.
The Radio Buttons MPA , Selected Spectra and New Spectra provide a choice between handling of the
complete data set (MPA) or selected spectra, or to load new selected spectra for compare.
Mark the checkbox Save at Halt to write a MPA file containing the configuration and all spectra at the stop of
a measurement. The file name can be entered. If the checkbox auto incr. is crossed, a 3-digit number is
appended to the file name that is automatically incremented with each saving. The format of the data can be
ASCII (extension for separated spectra .ASC), binary (.DAT), GANAAS (.SPE), EMSA (.EMSA) and CSV
(.CSV).
If Separate Header is not checked, the Header and data is saved together in a file with extension .MP,
otherwise the file with extension .MP contains only the header and the data is written separately into a file
with appropriate extension.
The buttons Save , Load , and Erase perform the respective operation. With Add and Sub spectra can be
added or subtracted from the present data. The checkbox calibr. can be checked to use a calibration and to
shift the data then according to the calibration. The Smooth button performs an n-point smoothing of
selected single spectra. The number of points to average can be set with the Pts edit field between 2 and 21.
Check the Write Listfile checkbox to write a listfile during a run. No Histogramming prevents calculating
any spectra to save computing time and concentrate the system on writing the list file.
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Fig. 4.2: MCA4.ini File