Starting SM_GUI in a licensed IDL session

To start SM_GUI in a licensed IDL version, do

    IDL> sm_gui [, filename]

This will work with the .sav file if you unzipped the entire sm_gui.zip package into a directory in your IDL path, or if you have the entire xray1 IDL source code library available.

If filename is specified, it will open that file right away. Otherwise, the GUI will be started "empty".

The following list tells which keywords you can set (some of the expert keywords are not listed here):

/inboard, /outboard, /cryo or /display_only

Set one of these keywords to determine which mode the program runs in (microscope control or display only). Of course, microscope control mode will work only if SM_GUI can manage to connect to the server (see Chap. 11). If this fails, it will offer you to abort or fall back to display-only mode.

/localhost

Set this keyword if you tunnel the connection to the microscope control computer through SSH. See Sec. 11.3 for details.

config_file='/path/to/configfile'

Set this keyword to the full path of an SM_GUI config file. See Sec. 5.20 for details.

client_logfile='/path/to/logfile'

Set this keyword to the location of the log file for sm_client. Otherwise, the current directory will be set. The logfile can also be specified in the config file, see Sec. 5.20 for details.

/aps

Set this keyword to turn on support for data files from the Advanced Photon Source. See Sec. 5.19 for details.