What's new in The Area Diffraction Machine 2 Beta 232
Apr 26, 2012
- Major:
- Adding the options "Do Scale Factor?" and "Set Min/Max?" to the Diffraction display and Cake display for fine tuning of the intensity scale.
- Adding support for Bruker data files.
- The program now uses Josh's formuals for the geometric transform derived in the software manual instead of Abhik's formulas. See the manual for a discussion of these equations.
- Modified the caking and integrating algorithm so that they would set all intensity integration data or cake data values that are less than 0 to equal exactly 0. This was done so that there wouldn't be any ambiguity since cake and intensity values are sometimes given negative values to signify other things happening in the data (like pixel masks or no values put into a bin).
- Allow for caking in 2theta.
- The program now ignores any peaks found inside polygon masks. Also, peaks are no longer displayed on top of polygon masks in the diffraction and cake displays.
- Improved the formatting of peak list files. The peak list files are now space separated instead of tab separated which makes the output look nicer. The header is also more verbose.
- New "Save Last Fit" button can be used to save all of the information about the previous calibration to a text file.
- The intensity integration will display minor tic marks on the y axis when displaying a log scale.
- New "Preferences" menu opened form the "File" menu can be used to specify the default folder to select files form.
- There is a new option called "Set As Initialization" which can be used to save a recorded macro so that it is run each time the program opens. You set this by recording a macro like usual, but then pushing the "Set As Initialization" option instead of the "Stop Record Macro". The saved macro file will be run whenever the program opens. This can be used to set various check boxes, colors, and user inputs to nice default values.
- New Abort Button to stop a macro.
- Macros will now create folders if necessary in order to save files specified to go into folders that don't yet exist.
- New 'Select The Center' button in the 'Calibration' Menu can be used to select from the diffraction image the coordinates of the center of the image.
- Minor:
- The size of the inputs in the GUI have been increased so that longer numbers can be read easier.
- Fix a bug where the integration window wouldn't resize properly and sometimes the labels and check box at the bottom of the window would disappear
- Changed the formatting of calibration parameters saved to a file. For brevity, the keywords R, pl, and ph are used instead of rotation, pixellength, and pixelheight. Also, the precision of the output parameters has been increased and the tabs in the output file are replaced by spaces. The program can read in files which contain any of the keywords.
- Increased the precision of the numbers saved during caking.
- Increased the precision of the numbers saved during intensity integration.
- Also, the intensity data is now saved with spaces separating the numbers instead of tabs.
- Changed the default extension of diffraction data that is loaded in from mar3450 to "All Files" so that
- Removed the Dark Current display from the "Calibration" tab since it wasn't doing anything.