Cima gui software

03jun08


Index:

08jun12:Turning on,off alfa bias monitoring:
07jun12:compiling the C code Wapp:
Cima problems:
Things that need to be fixed
Storing program state: frontend
Other cima locations:


07jun12: compiling the C code (Wapp) (top)

    Cima includes some C routines. They are under the Wapp/ directory.

Online  directories

SVN storage of info.

Building the programs:


08jun12:Turning on,off alfa bias monitoring: (top)

    05jun12: Alfa bias monitoring has been causing glitches in the rf signal. We need to turn off the bias monitoring for pulsar observations with alfa. Details of the monitoring are:


Cima problems:  (top)



Things that need to be fixed


Storing program state frontend: (top)

    Program state is stored in tcl global associative arrays (hashes). An incomplete list is:

global variable
description
alfa
alfa receiver
auto
auto observing
calib
calibration scans
colors

corr
interim correlator setup
fonts

iflo
setup iflo
load
loading configuration from disc
menu_buttons
holds info on menus. hash key starts with $name which is the cima name for the menu.
menu_valid_value
holds valid menu values (menubuttons.tcl
mock
mock spectrometer
obsmode
observing mode
obs_status
observing status display?
paths

point
telescope pointing
prefs
user preferences
Receivers
receiver setup
save
saving configuration to disc
setup
to hold interative modifications
user

wapp
wapp spectrometer

Interactively modifying state:

    To let users interactively update state variables the data is moved from the state variable to the setup() variable:
    To allow for changes from within the menus:
Things to watch out for:



   

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