Restrictions

Most likely, there will be quite a few bugs, and fitting foreign data files into the STXM 5 scheme (display etc.) will obviously require some compromises.

• There is support only for 2-d scans (images).

• The file structure from 2-ID-B and 2-ID-E (in particular the detector assignment) is complicated and seemed to change over the course of our experiments with the segmented detector. Some crucial information seems is not stored in the file (e.g., proper detector names). If a file can't be opened properly, presumably it can be fixed by editing and recompiling read_sxm_sidet.pro, sv_read_scan.pro, bh_read_2ide.pro or stxm5_displays.pro (but make sure that they still can read all the files which worked so far!). As long as the read routine returns a 3-d image data array and an array with detector names (corresponding to the third dimension of the image data array), and as long as the scan structure returned unchanged (you can add tags, but don't delete any), no changes to SM_GUI should be required. You'll have to edit stxm5_displays.pro if new detectors are added, or if detector names are changed. Otherwise, these detectors won't be able to be displayed.

• File $\rightarrow$ Display sm_par structure will show the Scan or Params structure instead.

• The availability of signal types and the physical meaning of the data values depends on the type of file (see below) and is not necessarily consistent with STXM 5 conventions.