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User Information
Subsections
STXM Principle and Overview
STXM Principle
STXM 5 Coordinate System
Scan Devices
Detectors
Outboard Detectors
Inboard Detectors
Running STXM V: The Essentials
Overview
Brief
SM_GUI
Overview
Using the Visible Light Microscope (VLM)
Exchanging specimens
Changing specimen mounts (
e.g.
, wet cell)
Taking Scans
Moving the Sample and other Scan Devices
How to find and record the X-ray focus
Changing the photon energy
Acquiring point spectra
Recording defocused point spectra
Acquisition of spectromicroscopy ``stacks''
Short and Simple
Recording the Template
Setting up the Stack
Starting the Stack
Monitoring the Stack
Aborting the Stack
Restarting the Stack
In Detail
Using the IDL session
Folders
Running Stacks in the Background
Running Stacks remotely
The File
stack_script.dat
Running STXM V: Inboard Particularities
Taking Care of the Segmented Silicon Detector
Filling the chamber with helium
Venting from helium to atmosphere
Using the helium flow system
Wet Cell
The
SM_GUI
Graphical User Interface
Starting
SM_GUI
Starting
SM_GUI
in a licensed IDL session
Starting the precompiled version on the Virtual Machine
More options to choose the program mode
GUI overview
The Draw Windows
Display Parameters Area
The Histogram Display
Spectra Settings Area
Signal Type, Detector and Display Area
The Display Information Area
Marking rectangles in an image
Fitting spectral peaks
The "Move Scan Devices to Mouse" button
The "Recenter Piezos" button
The Microscope Control Area
Shutter Control
Beamline Control
Silicon Detector -- Calibrate Now
The File Menu
Opening and Saving Data Files
Data Export
Printing
Additional Entries
The Alignment Menu
The Scan Menu
The Move Menu
The Extra Menu
Change Colortable
Use Nearest Neighbor Sampling on Zoom (no Interpolation)
Display Crosshair on Mouseclick Position
Plot Noise per Line in iTool
Image Processing
Edit Pointlist
Statistics
Zoom In, Zoom Out
Set up Stack
Start Stack
STXM 4 Display Settings File
Re-read Config File
APS File Read Settings
The Advanced Menu
Use Laser Positions
Homing
Track ZSTG in Spectra
Adjust Feedback Parameters
Monitor ADC Signal
Calibrate SGM
The Help Menu
The Toolbar
STXM 4 Support
APS Data File Support
Restrictions
Availability of Signal Types and Meaning of Data Values
APS File Read Settings
The
SM_GUI
config file
Running STXM V: Problems and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Help! I can't see my sample, the image is all black! (Or white)
Help! What's the difference between opening / saving data files files on the server and locally?
Help! I want to take a scan, but I have only one scan type to choose from in the scan menu!
Help! How can I print directly to the printer on Unix machines, rather than to a file?
Help! My scans on the inboard STXM look very noisy!
The scanning program (sm_gui) can't connect at startup
sm_server has crashed
Another client is connected
Your connection settings are wrong
The scanning program (sm_gui) get's stuck at startup
How do I remount the
data
folder?
What to do if the computer window seems locked up
Rebooting the computers
Rebooting the client computer (Linux)
Rebooting the server computer (Windows)
Beamline EPICS motors:
x1a_mot_server
Beamline printer problems
After a crash
Holger Fleckenstein 2008-07-08
