Roper 4411-0046 - Manual

x WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Figures Figure 1. The Help menu. ................................................................................................ 23Figure 2. Auxiliary Help menu. ....................................................................................... 24Figure 3. Run...

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21 Introduction This manual has been written to give new users a step-by-step guide to collecting,storing, and processing data from your Princeton Instruments system. Note that themanual is divided into three parts. Part 1 , Getting Started , is primarily intended for the first time user or for the ...

22 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Chapter 2 The Graphical Interface describes the essentials of the WinView/32 graphical interface and its operation. Included are discussions of theGreeting Screen, Main Menu, Title Bar, Status Bar, Cursor and Mouseoperations, Standard and Custom Tool Bars, and Imag...

Introduction 23 Part 3, Reference Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes is an alphabetically arranged reference describing the WinView/32 menus, windows, tab pages and dialogboxes. Appendix A Data Structure contains descriptions of the data structure for both WinView/WinSpec 1.43 and for 1.6 (which is t...

24 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Tool Tips and Status Bar Messages Placing the mouse cursor on a button and resting it there for a few seconds causes a brieftool-tip message to appear that describes the button’s function. Tool tips are alsoprovided for the individual panes of the Status Bar. Note ...

25 Chapter 1 Installing WinView/32 To ensure that the computer you have can operate the Princeton Instruments equipment,please first read the system requirements below carefully. WinView/32’s requirementsdiffer from those of previous versions of WinView. After confirming that your computer meets all...

26 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Super VGA monitor and graphics card supporting at least 256 colors with at least1 Mbyte of memory. Memory required will depend on desired display resolution. Two-button Microsoft compatible serial mouse or Logitech three-button serial/busmouse. Operating System req...

Chapter 1 Installing WinView/32 27 If your CD drive doesn’t support the Win’95 long filename conventions, attempting theinstallation causes the file names to be truncated and the installation fails, generating anerror message like: An error occurred during the move data process: -113Component: Appli...

28 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Note: If you aren’t sure how to access the FTP site, contact PI’s Technical Support Department for assistance. Contact information follows. Roper Scientific3660 Quakerbridge RoadTrenton, NJ 08619 (USA) Tel: 609-587-9797Fax: 609-587-1970 Tech Support E-mail: techsup...

32 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ➧ To specify a different location, click on Browse. Then either select new directory orenter its name (with path information) in the entry box and click on OK . If you enter the name of a directory that doesn’t exist, Install will offer to create it for you(Figure ...

36 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ➧ The File Installation screen depicted in Figure 21 appears next. The names of theindividual files appear in the message box as they are loaded and the installationprogress in percent is continuously displayed. Completing the installation for eachfloppy causes a m...

Chapter 1 Installing WinView/32 37 ➧ After all files have been loaded, the Setup Complete dialog box (Figure 24) appears.Selecting Finish completes the installation. Default Directories A full installation of WinView/32 copies the following files into the directories listedbelow. The local drive is ...

38 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M C:\Princeton Instruments\WinView32\Data Default directory for data files. Sample data files, with the .SPE extension, are loaded ifthis option is selected during installation. C:\Princeton Instruments\WinView32\Documentation Contains read-me information files as we...

Chapter 1 Installing WinView/32 39 Do not install WinView/32 and WinSpec/32 software packages both in the samedirectory. Although several different versions of WinView/32 and/or WinSpec/32 can be installedon the same computer without conflicts, you should not run more than one version at anyone time...

44 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Standad Tool Bar WinView/32 Logo (click to access Control menu) Custom Tool Bar Title Bar Menu Bar Window Control Boxes Status Bar Main Display Area Cursor Values, labels, and alphanumeric data in general are entered from the keyboard.Selections and screen control ...

Chapter 2 The Graphical Interface 45 Control Menu Restore: Return the active window to the size and position it had before you chose the Maximize or Minimize command. Move: Allows you to move the active window or dialog box with the arrow keys. Move command is unavailable if the window is MAXimized....

46 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M for that menu, allowing it to be opened from the keyboard by simultaneously pressingthe ALT key and the shortcut key. For example, to open the Setup menu you would pressthe ALT key and then the S key, which would cause the Setup menu (Figure 34) toappear. Alternati...

Chapter 2 The Graphical Interface 47 Note: Some menu selections may not be active, as determined by the installed components, setup, system status, previous selections and revision level of the software.Inactive selections appear “grayed out” and are unresponsive. Right-Click menus Accessed from Ope...

Chapter 2 The Graphical Interface 49 Customizing the Custom Toolbar The Customize Toolbar dialog box (Figure 40), accessed by selecting Custom Toolbaron the Setup menu, allows a number of other buttons to be added to the Custom Toolbarat the user’s discretion. See Chapter 14 (page 197) for a detaile...

50 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Data Entry & Parameter Selection Devices Edit Boxes and Text Boxes: An edit box or text box is one into which you can enter information. When you move themouse pointer to an edit box and click the mouse, an insertion point (flashing vertical bar“|”) appears. Ch...

Chapter 2 The Graphical Interface 51 Camera Operation dialog box (Figure 42) uses a slider to set the Exposure Time, RS170Intensity Scaling and Offset. List Boxes and List Views: A list box displays a selection from a list. An arrow button at the end of the box causesthe list of available choices to...

52 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Check Boxes: Check boxes allow independent functions to be switched on or off by clicking the mousepointer on the box. When a check box is selected, it contains a ✔ . Each time you click on a check box the existing condition reverses. In Figure 44 note that the Wai...

Chapter 2 The Graphical Interface 53 on a different button in the group will deselect the formerly selected button. In Figure 44radio buttons are provided to choose between the Full Speed and Safe timing modes. Scroll Bars: Scroll bars appear on a window if the list or other material to be viewed is...

55 Chapter 3 Hardware Setup Introduction This chapter will provide detailed instructions on how to configure the hardwareselections using the WinView/32 dialog boxes and tab pages. Hardware Setup dialogboxes and tab pages are called from the Setup menu, shown in Figure 46. This chapterbegins with a ...

56 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M causes the list of available controllers to appear. The new selection is made by simplyclicking on the type designation. The Controller Type selection is critical because itdetermines the nature and type of the other selections that will be available, including the...

Chapter 3 Hardware Setup 57 Interface Selection The third Setup Wizard dialog box (Figure 49) selects the Interface Card. The selectedInterface appears in the text box. Clicking on the button at the end of the box causes thelist of available selections to drop down. The new selection is made by simp...

58 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M MicroMAX Controller/Detector page Controller Type: Select MicroMAX Controller Version: Set to match the version of your controller. Later versions of the MicroMAX have features unavailable in earlier ones. For proper operation,version selection must match the actua...

Chapter 3 Hardware Setup 59 Readout Mode: The selections are Full Frame, in which the entire chip can be read out, Frame Transfer, in which only the unmasked area of the chip can be readout, and Interline, which provides 100% duty cycle operation. Note that frametransfer is only available if the cam...

60 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M 5 MHz MicroMAX Controller/Detector page Controller Type: Select MicroMAX 5MHz Controller Version: Set to match the version of your controller. Later versions of the controller have features unavailable in earlier ones. For proper operation,version selection must ma...

62 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M MicroView Controller/Detector page Controller Type: Select MicroView Controller Version: Set to match the version of your controller. Later versions of the MicroView have features unavailable in earlier ones. For proper operation,version selection must match the ac...

Chapter 3 Hardware Setup 63 Interface page See the Interface tab page discussion on page 83. Control Buttons: OK, Cancel & Help: These three buttons apply to the Hardware Setup window and are available for all tab pages. Clicking OK implements the selections from all pages. Clicking Cancel close...

64 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M MSP-100 Controller page Controller Type: Select MSP-100 Controller Version: Set to match the version of your controller. Camera Type: Select the camera type installed in your system. Shutter Compensation Time: Delays the readout long enough for the shutter (if pres...

66 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M PentaMAX Controller/Detector page Controller Type: Select PentaMAX Controller Version: Set to match the version of your PentaMAX. Later versions of the PentaMAX have features unavailable in earlier ones. For properoperation, version selection must match the actual ...

74 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ST-133 Controller/Detector page Controller Type: Select ST133 Controller Version: Set to match the version of your ST-133. Later versions of the ST- 133 have features unavailable in earlier ones. For proper operation, versionselection must match the actual controll...

76 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ST-138 Controller/Detector page Controller Type: Select ST138 Camera Type: Select the camera type installed in your system. Shutter Type: Selections are None, Small, Large, Remote and Electronic. For most cameras, the correct setting is Small. If the CCD is very la...

78 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M V/ICCD Controller/Detector page Controller Type: V/ICCD Note: V/ICCD Box and V/ICCD are very different selections. If you have the V/ICCD camera only, without the Control Box, you should select V/ICCD. If you have theV/ICCD camera and the Control Box, then you shou...

80 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M User Defined Chip Selecting User Defined Chip on the Controller/Camera tab page makes the Custom Chiptab page appear (Figure 62). The default values conform to the physical layout of theCCD array and are optimum for most measurements. Roper Scientific does not enco...

Chapter 3 Hardware Setup 81 User Defined Timing Introduction Selecting User Defined Timing on the ST-138 Controller/Camera tab page causes theCustom Timing tab page to appear. If brought to the front, the Custom Timing selectionsbecome available as shown in Figure 63. The default timing parameter va...

82 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Display Tab Page With the exception of the ST-121, the Display Tab Page is the same for all controllers.Three display options, Rotate, Reverse and Flip, are provided. Before and afterthumbnail illustrations show the effect of each selection. If no option is selecte...

Chapter 3 Hardware Setup 83 Interface Tab Page With the exception of the V/ICCD and the V/ICCD Control Box, the Display Tab Pageis the same for all controllers and the selections are as follows. In the case of V/ICCDand V/ICCD Control Box, the only Hardware Setup tab pages are Controller/Cameraand D...

85 Chapter 4 Initial Data Collection Introduction The procedure in this chapter will enable you to begin collecting real data promptly.Minimum requirements are assumed. If your system is more complex, e.g., requiringconsideration of complex timing and synchronization issues, you will have to careful...

86 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M If using an intensified camera, note that data collection in the following procedure willbe done in the CW/Shutter mode, in which light overload can easily occur. Beforepowering the controller and camera, reduce the room light to reduce the risk of overloaddamage. ...

Chapter 4 Initial Data Collection 87 Experiment Setup Procedure (all controllers) ➧ Open the Experiment Setup window (Figure 67) from the Acquisition menu. Note: The ROI Setup page won’t be present if the selected controller is a V/ICCD or V/ICCD Control Box. Nor will there be an ADC page. However, ...

Chapter 4 Initial Data Collection 89 ➧ On the ADC tab page, set the parameters as they apply to your particular system. Parameters that might be listed, depending on the controller type, include: Type: For systems having more than one A/D converter, both FAST and SLOW will be available. Make this se...

92 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Data Collection Procedures (controller specific) MicroMAX or ST-133 The procedure that follows for these controllers is in two parts, Video Focusing and Data Collection . In focusing, images are displayed on the video monitor (not the computer monitor) and no data ...

Chapter 4 Initial Data Collection 95 Acquisition Menu, or by clicking on the Focus icon of the Custom Toolbar. Images will be continuously acquired and displayed on the computer screen. ➧ To store the most recent image, click Start Storage on the Acquisition menu or click on the Start Store icon on ...

Chapter 4 Initial Data Collection 97 If you wish to initiate data display at the computer again, select Focus . To store the new data to disk, again click Start Storage on the Acquisition menu or click on the Start Store icon. This completes initial data acquisition with a V/ICCD Control Box. Data C...

99 Chapter 5 Opening, Closing,and Saving Data Files Introduction This chapter discusses how to open, close, and save existing data files to disk. Optionsfor saving and deleting files will be explained. Data files created with temporary filenames should be saved to disk periodically. Files should be ...

Chapter 5 Opening, Closing and Saving Data 101 ➧ Either double click on the name of the file you want to open or single-click on thename and then click on the Open button. For example, with Image selected, doubleclicking on Circuit.spe would open that file, producing the display shown in Figure80. N...

102 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M of the Open dialog box itself can be selected by means of the icons to the right of theLook In text box, or by right clicking the mouse anywhere in the file listing area of thebox (but not on a file name). Right clicking on a file name opens a File Operations menu...

Chapter 5 Opening, Closing and Saving Data 103 ➧ Click on OK to save the file, or Cancel to close the Data File Save As dialog without saving the file. Data File tab page The Data File tab page, described in detail on page 244, provides the user with additionalcontrol and great flexibility in naming...

104 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M The box at the upper right of the window will also remove the data window from view by reducing it to an icon on the task bar. There may be situations where youwould want to do this to reduce desktop clutter. However, the data will remainloaded in RAM, reducing th...

Chapter 5 Opening, Closing and Saving Data 105 Multiple Files: It is also possible to delete multiple files at the same time by using the Win95 Shift Click and Control Click selection features. To select a range ofcontiguously listed files for deleting: ➧ Hold the Shift key down and click on the fir...

107 Chapter 6 Displaying the Data Introduction WinView/32 can display data as an image, as a two dimensional graph, or as a 3 DGraph (multiple strips from the same graph or the same strip from multiple frames). Youcan choose to allow the software control how the data will be displayed or make thesel...

108 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Displaying circuit.spe The image used in this exercise is circuit.spe, one of the images supplied with yourWinView/32 software. Once you become comfortable working with this image, youshould have little difficulty in working with images from actual measurement dat...

110 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Selecting a region of interest ➧ Using the mouse, drag a rectangular region on the image as shown in Figure 88. Todo so, first position the mouse cursor at one corner of the region to be defined. Nextpress the left mouse button and, while it is held down, drag the...

Chapter 6 Displaying the Data 111 ➧ Click on the (Undo Zoom-In) Button. The original view will be restored. Opening the Display Layout window ➧ With the image still open, select Layout from the Display menu. The Display Layoutwindow will open (Figure 90). Note that you can also access the Display La...

112 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Viewing axes and cross sections ➧ Still in the Display Layout window, select Axes Horizontal, Axes Vertical, CrossSections Horizontal and Cross Sections Vertical. Chapter 15 contains additionalinformation on Axes and Cross Sections. ➧ Click on the Range tab to mov...

Chapter 6 Displaying the Data 113 The information box ➧ On the View menu, select Info. The information box should appear as shown inFigure 94. The intensity in A/D counts is reported at the X and Y positioncorresponding to the cursor position. Also reported are the Frame number, Aspectratio, and X a...

114 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ➧ Click the (Autoscale) button. The display will autorange to the intensity range in the defined region. The effect will be an increase in contrast in the observed image.Throughout the image, pixels darker or lighter than those in the defined region willbe display...

Chapter 6 Displaying the Data 115 ➧ Return to the Axes tab page again and change the axis labels back to their originaldesignations ( Pixel for horizontal; Strip for vertical). Changing the Color of the Axes and Labels ➧ Click on the Color tab to bring the Color tab page to the front. Note that ther...

116 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ➧ Select a different color by clicking on the swatch of the desired color in the Palette.Then click on OK to close the Palette dialog box and on OK again to close the Display Layout window. The axes and colors will now appear with the new color. ➧ Repeating the pr...

122 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Note: When you open the information box, it becomes the active window. To perform operations in the data display window, such as changing the selected strip,you must again make the data display window active by clicking the mouse cursoranywhere in the data box. Th...

Chapter 6 Displaying the Data 123 ➧ Try operating the cursor positioning keys to demonstrate their effect. The left/rightarrow key move the cursor along the strip, and the up/down keys move it from stripto strip. The Home and End keys still move the cursor to the strip ends, and ShiftHome and Shift ...

Chapter 6 Displaying the Data 125 Hidden surfaces You may wish to shift the view to show the hidden or underside of the display, asillustrated in the following procedure. ➧ Open the Display Layout window and make the following changes. Range: Change Y so that the range is “from 200 to 1” (not “from ...

Chapter 6 Displaying the Data 129 The Settings dialog allows you to change the color of the label text, to choose between an opaque (white) background and a transparent background, and choose whether thelabels are to run vertically or horizontally. The opaque background works well withimages, where ...

130 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Generally it is advisable to save the label in a comment field; otherwise, once the label isprinted and the display is closed, the label will be lost. In fact, once the label is on thedisplay, it cannot be edited. However, if it has been saved, it can be edited, a...

Chapter 6 Displaying the Data 131 To correct the line-wrapping, simply resize the ROI as shown in Figure 118. . The font can be changed after the label is printed on the display: . To change the background or color, the label must be erased and reprinted; it can only bealtered inside the edit box. S...

135 Chapter 7 ROI & Binning Options Overview The ROI Experiment Setup tab page (not available with all controller types) allows youto define one or more rectangular subregions of the CCD for readout. The remainingpixels will be discarded. Each area of interest is defined by in the X and Y direct...

136 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ➧ For defining only one region for readout, you must make sure that the NumberStored parameter shows 0 or 1. A “1” indicates that a pattern is already stored andyou are going to edit it. The text window to the left of Number Stored will read EditPattern. A “0” for...

Chapter 7 ROI and Binning Options 137 Definition of multiple regions Multiple ROIs can be defined. The number of ROIs stored is given by the NumberStored indication. The Edit Pattern data box allows any stored pattern to be selected andits parameters changed. The Start, End and Group values for the ...

Chapter 7 ROI and Binning Options 139 charge as image pixels, the binning of large sections may result in saturation and“blooming”, or spilling of charge back into the image area. Note that separate Group parameter values can be entered in the X and Y direction forevery defined parameter to give the...

141 Chapter 8 Correction Techniques Introduction Advanced data collection includes background subtraction, flatfield correction, CCDblemishes removal and Cosmic Ray removal. The skillful use of these techniques cansignificantly enhance measurement capabilities. Note that not all correction technique...

Chapter 8 Correction Techniques 143 Flatfield Correction Flatfield correction allows the user to divide out small nonuniformities in gain frompixel to pixel. The instructions below set the flatfield correction to be performed beforedata are saved to RAM or disk. Acquiring a flatfield file This opera...

145 Chapter 9 Image Math Introduction Selecting Image Math on the Process Menu opens the Math dialog box (Figure 126),which allows mathematical operations to be performed on one file or between two datafiles with the result written to a third. The Math dialog box contains four tab pages, onefor each...

146 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M File tab pages As many as three files can be involved in image-math operations and there is acorresponding tab page for each of them, A , B , and C . A and B are Input Files. C is always the Output File. Every operation requires at least one Input File and an Outp...

Chapter 9 Image Math 147 SquaredAbsolute ValueBitwise ComplementBinary NOT Operations Using a Single File and a Constant When working with a single file and a constant, the operation will be performed on eachpixel value of A , using the constant specified on the B tab page, and the result written to...

148 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M MAX: The A file is compared, pixel by pixel, with the B file and the larger of the two values written to the C file. It is also possible to compare each pixel of the A file with a constant entered on the B tab page, with the larger of the two values written to the...

Chapter 9 Image Math 149 Bits Value Pixel value in A 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 10 1 0 1 1365 Corresponding pixel value in B 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 63 Result written to C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 21 OR: A bitwise OR operation is performed on the binary representation of each pixel of the A file and each pixel of...

151 Chapter 10 Post-AcquisitionProcessing Mask Operations Several post-acquisition mask-process options, including Edge enhancement,Sharpening, Smoothing, a Custom Filter and Morphological Erode and Dilationoperations, are provided in the WinView/32 software. These options appear on theProcess menu ...

152 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Parameters tab page Edge enhancement is accomplished by mask operations defined by parameters enteredon the Parameters tab page. These functions can enhance edges, sharpen or smoothfeatures, or erode or dilate an image. How these images are processed is brieflydes...

Chapter 10 Post-Acquisition Processing Mask Operations 153 Multiply each pair of corresponding numbers, and sum the products. (-1 20) + (-1 20) + (-1 19) + (-1 20) + (8 21) + (-1 20) + (-1 20) + (-1 19) + (-1 20) = 10 The result is placed at position 100, 100 in the output image file. The mask is no...

Chapter 10 Post-Acquisition Processing Mask Operations 155 ➧ If you wish to process only part of the Input Image, enter the appropriate X-Y rangevalues. Alternatively specify a data region in the active window using the mouse andclick the Mouse button at the bottom of the window to enter those value...

Chapter 10 Post-Acquisition Processing Mask Operations 157 Sharpening Procedure Use the following procedure to sharpen an image. ➧ Select Sharpening from the Process menu. ➧ Enter the Input Image and Output Image names. ➧ On the Input tab page, select the data frame containing the data on which the ...

158 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Smoothing Functions Input tab page The Input tab page selects the data to be operated on. The user can specify the data file,the frames within the file, and the X and Y range on the CCD. The input datatype isreported. Note that the Mouse button at the bottom of th...

Chapter 10 Post-Acquisition Processing Mask Operations 159 Parameters tab page Smoothing is also accomplished by mask operations, in this case parameters entered onthe Smoothing Parameters tab page. These masks, sometimes called low pass filters,attenuate regions with high contrast, while leaving pi...

160 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Smoothing Procedure Use the following procedure to smooth an image. ➧ Select Smoothing from the Process menu. ➧ Enter the Input Image and Output Image names. ➧ On the Input tab page, select the data frame containing the data on which the operation is to be perform...

Chapter 10 Post-Acquisition Processing Mask Operations 161 Morphological Functions Input tab page The Input tab page selects the data to be operated on. The user can specify the data file,the frames within the file, and the X and Y range on the CCD. The input datatype isreported. Note that the Mouse...

Chapter 10 Post-Acquisition Processing Mask Operations 165 Filter Matrix tab page The Custom-Filter Filter-Matrix tab page allows you to set the filter matrix parametervalues. The filter is applied to the data-set specified via the Custom Filter Input tab page(page 286). The processed data is saved ...

166 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Custom Filter Procedure Use the following procedure to apply a custom filter to an image. ➧ Select Custom Filter from the Process menu. ➧ Enter the Input Image and Output Image names. ➧ On the Input tab page, select the data frame containing the data on which the ...

Chapter 10 Post-Acquisition Processing Mask Operations 167 Look Up Table Input tab page The Input tab page selects the data to be operated on. The user can specify the data file,the frames within the file, and the X and Y range on the CCD. The input data type isreported. Note that the Mouse button a...

168 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ➧ Select Look Up Table from the Process menu. ➧ Using the Input and Output tab pages, enter the Input and Output file names. ➧ On the Input tab page, select the data frame containing the data on which the operation is to be performed. If you wish to process only p...

169 Chapter 11 Additional Post-Acquisition Processing Options Threshold and Clipping Introduction Clipping an image causes pixels outside the specified range to be changed. When Clip High is selected, all pixels with values greater than the Clip High value will be changed to the Clip High value. Whe...

170 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ➧ If you wish to process only part of the Input Image, enter the appropriate X-Y rangevalues. Alternatively specify a data region in the active window using the mouse andclick the Mouse button at the bottom of the window to enter those values. ➧ On the Parameters ...

172 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Binning and Skipping Introduction Selecting Binning on the Process menu opens the Binning and Skipping window, whichallows binning to be accomplished in software after the data has been collected. TheParameters tab page allows the bin size to be set independently ...

Chapter 11 Additional Post-Acquisition Processing Options 173 no points will be skipped. Left over points at the end of a strip or column arediscarded. ➧ Enter the name of the Output file on the Output tab page. In later editions of the software, it will additionally be possible to specify an output...

174 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Histogram Calculation Introduction Two types of histograms are available for graphing the distribution of intensities of animage. The Histogram operation groups pixels of a similar intensity together. The X- axis indicates the intensity, and the Y-axis displays th...

177 Chapter 12 Printing Introduction The current version of WinView/32 can be used to print images directly. Methods arelisted below both for direct printing and for using the clipboard to transfer the image toanother program for printing. Printing Directly from WinView/32 ➧ Open the file you want t...

178 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ➧ Select the number of copies and pages (if a file contains multiple frames, each willbe printed as a separate page). ➧ Click on OK to initiate the print. Notes: Once the Print Setup is properly configured, you can print the active window simply byselecting Print ...

Chapter 12 Printing 179 Zoom In: Allows you to zoom in on the previewed page, allowing a selected area to be examined in detail. There are two zoom levels. Note that, if not at full zoom, thecursor becomes a “magnifying glass” if positioned on the image area. Zoom Out: Allows you to return to the no...

180 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Many text editors and graphics programs allow images to be pasted directly from theclipboard. Paint Shop Pro, a shareware program, is one example of an inexpensiveprogram that can edit and save clipboard screen shots. ➧ Open the application. Open a new file within...

181 Chapter 13 Pulser Operation Three different pulser/timing generators are available for use with WinView/32. To beavailable, pulser support must have been installed as described in the Installationchapter. Pulser support is then accessed by selecting Pulsers on the Setup menu and then selecting t...

182 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ➧ Make sure the PG-200 is connected to one of the serial ports of the computer. Lateryou will tell WinView32 the name of this port (COM1, COM2, etc.). The softwarecannot automatically detect the location of the PG-200. ➧ Following the intensifier precautions liste...

184 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M ➧ Set the Aux Trigger output to be synchronized to either the Trigger or the Gate pulse. ➧ Click on the Pulsing tab to bring the Pulsing tab page to the front (Figure 161). ➧ Select Continuous or Sequential and then click on the adjacent Setup button. For safety, ...

186 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Programmable Timing Generator (PTG) Unlike the PG-200 and the DG-535, the PTG is not a free-standing instrument but rathera plug-in module designed for installation in a special version of the ST-133 Controller.This novel and highly integrated approach to timing g...

Chapter 13 Pulser Operation 187 ➧ Select PTG . Then click on the Setup Pulser button. The PTG window (Figure 166) will open. If PTG is grayed out on the Pulsers dialog box, PTG support has not been installed. ➧ Click on the Comm Port tab to bring the Comm Port tab page (Figure 167) to the front. ➧ M...

Chapter 13 Pulser Operation 195 ➧ Click the Download to DG-535 button. This writes all of the parameter values to the DG-535. ➧ Click on OK to close the window. Note: The DG-535 can also be controlled interactively as data is being collected. See the discussion of the timing generator interactive fu...

197 Chapter 14 Custom Toolbar Settings Introduction The Custom Toolbar feature of WinView allows the user one-button access to manyfeatures or combinations of features available through the software. The Custom Toolbarlayout and the number of buttons displayed on the Custom Toolbar can easily bechan...

198 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Adding an Available Button ➧ Open the Customize Toolbar dialog by clicking on Custom Toolbar in the Setupmenu. ➧ Referring to Figure 181, note that the buttons available for placement on the CustomToolbar are listed on the left. Buttons already on the toolbar are ...

Chapter 14 Custom Toolbar Settings 199 Move Up: Together with Move Down , Move Up determines the position of a given button on the Custom Toolbar. Each time this button is clicked, the selectedbutton on the Toolbar buttons list moves up one position. Move Down: Together with Move Up , Move Down dete...

203 Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes .SPE to ASCII Conversion dialog box The WinX32 .SPE to ASCII Conversion Snap-In converts WinX *.spe image files toASCII. Note: When frames are converted and the output option is One File Per Frame , the resulting filenames will include the frame numbers. For exa...

204 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Frame No.: Enter the first and last frame number of the frame set to be converted. File Extension: Displays the extension that will be appended to filename. The default is txt but a different extension can be entered. Delimiter: The choice of Tab, Space, Semicolum...

206 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Marker Curves On: Checking the Marker Curves On box will cause every nth curve, where n is the number set in the Curve box, to be drawn in the selected MarkerGraphs color. Note that the marker graph curves as viewed on the display may not appear to beevenly spaced...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 207 Save as Default check box: Saves settings on all Display Layout tab pages. These settings will be automatically established when the software is started. Control Buttons: OK: Executes the layout settings and closes the Display Layout window. Cancel: Closes the D...

208 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M A page All math operations, simple or complex, linear or non-linear, involve performingoperations on the curve specified via the A file page. A description of the items on this page follows. See Chapter 9 for a general discussion of the Math operations. Parameters...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 209 Control Buttons: Mouse: Allows you to specify a region to be processed using the mouse. Simply drag a box in the data region of the active window and then click on Mouse . The Frame and Range parameters will assume the values of the defined region. An ROI mismat...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 211 A/D 3152 tab page This page only appears in the Experiment Setup Window if the controller is a V/ICCD ora V/ICCD Control box and if a Data Translation DT3152 Frame Grabber has beenselected as the Frame Grabber type on the Hardware Setup V/ICCD Controller/Detecto...

212 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Cancel: Click on this button to close the Experiment Setup window without making any changes. Help: Opens context-sensitive help for whichever tab page is on top. ADC tab page This tab page allows you to make the analog-to-digital (ADC) selections for yoursystem. ...

214 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Focus: Clicking on Focus initiates a data-collection run in which the data is not storeduntil Start Storage is selected. OK: Click on OK to save the changes and close the Experiment Setup window without initiating a data collection run. Cancel: Click on this butto...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 215 Output Options: Format: You have the choice of two output formats, Standard Text or Excel Text. Select Output File: Opens a browser for convenient naming of the output file. File name can also be directly entered via the adjacent text entry window. Progress: Ind...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 217 Axes display layout tab page This page allows you to select whether the axes will be displayed. If displayed, it alsoallows you to specify a label string for each axis. See Chapter 6 for additionalinformation on data display. Parameters Figure 192. Typical data ...

218 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Horizontal Axis & Vertical Axis check boxes: If either box is checked, both axes will be displayed. This is equivalent to checking either axis box on the DisplayLayout General tab page. Calibration On/Off radio buttons: Allows the axis calibration to be turned...

220 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Brightness/Contrast dialog box The Brightness/Contrast dialog box, opened by selecting Palette on the Display menu,allows you to adjust the brightness and contrast of the active image. Five differenttransfer functions of monitor-brightness versus pixel value can b...

222 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M C page All math operations, simple or complex, linear or non-linear, involve writing the resultsto the output file specified via the C file page. A description of the items on this page follows. See Chapter 9 for a discussion of Image Math operations. Parameters O...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 223 Control Buttons: Mouse: Allows you to specify a region to be processed using the mouse. Simply drag a box in the data region of the active window and then click on Mouse . The Frame and Range parameters will assume the values of the defined region. An ROI mismat...

224 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Cleans/Skips tab page The Cleans/Skips tab page, accessed by selecting Hardware on the Setup menu, allowsthe user to change the clean and skip parameters from their default values. Descriptionsfollow. Roper Scientific does not encourage users to change these param...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 225 Vertical Skips When the region of interest is less than the full chip, Vertical Skips allows you to bin andquickly transverse the strips that precede and follow the ROI. The strips to be processedand discarded are binned into blocks, each containing a number of ...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 227 Cancel: Closes the Display Layout window without implementing any of the changes. Help: Opens context-sensitive help for Display Layout window. Save as Default check box: Saves settings of all Display Layout tab pages. These settings will be automatically establ...

228 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Continuous Pulsing Setup dialog box When Continuous pulsing, the Pulse Width and Pulse Delay remain constant at thevalues specified. They can be entered directly or you can use the spin wheels to set thewanted settings. The units are selected from the drop-down bo...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 229 Control Box Focus Window Selecting Video Focus on the Acquisition Setup menu with V/ICCD as the selected controller opens the Control Box window. This window contains two tab pages, Cameraand Box (Figure 203). The Camera tab page is identical to the V/ICCD Focus...

230 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Vertical Shade & Horizontal Shade: These parameters allow you to independently set the amount of vertical and horizontal shading to be applied to the image tocompensate for illumination non-uniformity. The range is 0 to 99 and the defaultis 50 for both paramet...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 231 ➧ Press ENTER when the window is the size you want. Note: This command is unavailable if you maximize the window. Size Shortcut: Using the mouse, drag the size bars at the corners or edges of the window. Minimize: Use this command to reduce the WinView/32 window...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 233 charge will be transferred. If too slow, image smearing will be increased due tothe exposure that takes place while the transfer is in progress. The default valuegives good results in most measurements. User Defined Chip: Selecting User Defined Chip makes the Cu...

234 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Control Buttons: OK: Executes the selections for all tab pages and closes the dialog box. Cancel: Closes the dialog box without executing any changes. Help: Opens context-sensitive help for whichever tab page is on top. Controller Registers dialog box See discussi...

236 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Cross Section (post processing) General discussion: Chapter 11. Input tab page: pg. 286 Parameters tab page: pg. 309 Output tab page: pg. 307 Cursor tab page Figure 207. Moon4.spe graph, Large cursor selected. Figure 208. Cursor tab page.

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 237 The Display Layout Cursor tab page allows the data cursor style and type to be changed.It additionally allows the user control over how an ROI box will be displayed. Data Cursor Display Cursor Visible: If checked, the cursor will appear. If unchecked, the data c...

238 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M None (no cursor displayed). The cross-hair cursor, which extends all the way to theboundaries of the data-display area with an image display, is particularlyadvantageous for reading the cursor’s coordinates from the axes scales. Some cursorfunctions differ dependi...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 239 Custom Timing tab page This tab page, accessed by selecting Hardware on the Setup menu, allows userredefinition of the basic chip timing options. See page 81 for a detailed discussion of theCustom Timing tab page. Roper Scientific does not encourage users to cha...

240 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M for the color mapping, toggle the Color Bar Toolbox button. Only one colormapping is provided. Cross sections On/Off: Adds or removes cross sections in the current image. The Y cross section appears to the left of the image and the X crosssection appears below the...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 241 Last Frame/Strip: Views the last exposure in a file containing more than one exposure. There is no menu equivalent to this function. Statistics: Processes statistics on the current data file. If a subregion is selected, only processes the subregion. Equivalent t...

242 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M as an unintensified unshuttered CCD camera and the exposure time is entirelya function of the Exposure Time parameter set with software. Note that thisbutton is inactive while data acquisition is in progress. PI-MAX to Safe: Establishes the PI-MAX Safe mode, biasi...

244 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Focus: Clicking on Focus initiates a data-collection run in which the data is not stored until Start Storage is selected. OK: Click on OK to save the changes and close the Experiment Setup window without initiating a data collection run. Cancel: Click on this butt...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 247 Cancel: Click on this button to close the Experiment Setup window without making any changes. Help: Opens context-sensitive help for whichever tab page is on top. Data window Opening a data file or collecting data opens a data window. Any number (consistent with...

250 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M unselected. For more information, see the discussion of the Image Layout tabpage on page 283. The Toggle Fixed Zoom Factor On/Off button is onlyprovided when viewing a data set as an image. Zoom 1:1 button: Clicking this button attempts to set the zoom factor to 1...

252 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Toolbar: Allows the Data Window toolbar bar to be switched on or off. Display Layout: Opens the Display Layout dialog box. Detector Temperature dialog box If the selected controller is a MicroMAX, ST-133 or V/ICCD (or control box), clickingDetector Temperature on ...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 253 DG-535 Comm Port tab page Allows you to set the communications port and parameters for communications betweenthe computer and the pulser/timing generator. Additionally provides for initializing theport. See Chapter 13 for additional information. Parameters Port ...

254 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M DG-535 Continuous Pulsing Setup dialog box When Continuous pulsing, the Pulse Width and Pulse Delay remain constant at thevalues specified. They can be entered directly or you can use the spin wheels to set thevalue. The units are selected from the drop-down boxes...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 255 DG-535 Interactive Pulse Width and Delay dialog box The Interactive Pulse Width and Delay dialog box, accessed with the button of the Custom toolbar, allows you to control the Pulse Width and Pulse Delay parameters of aDG-535 or PTG timing generator while acquir...

256 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M The Interactive Trigger Setup dialog box, accessed by clicking on the button of the Custom toolbar, allows you to select the Trigger mode (Internal or External) and, ifInternal is selected, to set the Frequency, all while acquiring data. Parameters Trigger Frequen...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 257 Parameters Continuous: Opens the Continuous Pulsing dialog box. See discussion on page 228 for detailed information. Sequential: Opens the Sequential Pulsing dialog box. See discussion on page 258 for detailed information. Bracket Pulsing On/Off radio buttons: S...

258 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M DG-535 Pulse Sequence Setup dialog box In Pulse Sequential operation, the Pulse Width and Pulse Delay change over the courseof the measurement. This sweep can be accomplished linearly ( Fixed Increment type) or exponentially ( Exponential Increment type). Linear s...

260 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M together. Towards the end of the decay where the decay is slow, the gate pulses arefurther apart but much wider to accommodate the lower signal amplitude. The resultis output data that is relatively constant in intensity over the decay time. This datacan be easily...

262 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Software Accumulations: Sets the number of exposures to be taken for each Shot. Note that the number of Accumulations set here must be the same as the value set onthe Experiment Setup Main tab page for proper operation. Control Buttons: OK: Saves the specified par...

264 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Control Buttons: Download to DG-535: Clicking on this button immediately sends all current dialog values to the DG-535. Selecting Download to DG-535 also changes the name on the Cancel button to Close , indicating that canceling is no longer an option. OK: Click o...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 265 Diagnostics: Get/Set Parameter The Diagnostics Get/Set Parameters dialog box allows the value of a parameter forwhich you have the ID to be entered directly. This function is primarily used as a factorydevelopment tool. Diagnostics menu The Diagnostics menu, whi...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 267 For Additional Information General tab page: pg. 278 Range tab page: pg. 346 Color tab page: pg. 225 Axes tab page: pg. 217 3D Layout tab page: pg. 204 Image Layout tab page: pg. 283 Cursor tab page: pg. 236 Save as Default check box: Saves settings on all pages...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 269 Display tab page The Display tab page, accessed by selecting Hardware on the Setup menu, determinesthe basic orientation of the data display. Parameters Thumbnail Graphics: There are two. The one on the left represents the actual orientation of an image or spect...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 271 PI software is a function of the amount of RAM required to operate Windows (usuallyfrom 6-12 Mbytes) and the amount of RAM used by other applications (varies greatly byapplication). Even when mail, fax, or other programs are minimized they still allocateRAM, and...

272 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Control Buttons: Cancel: The Cancel button closes the Environment Setup dialog without changing any settings. OK: The OK button saves changes to the Environment Setup dialog and closes the dialog. Changes do not take effect until the computer is rebooted. Execute ...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 275 Factory Defaults dialog boxes See page 294. File menu This menu (Figure 239) provides the basic file functions as follows. Open: Accesses the Open dialog box (pg. 302), allowing previously saved data files to be opened for display or processing. Close: Closes al...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 277 Font dialog box The Font dialog box (Figure 241), which opens when you select Fonts on the Display Layout Axes tab page, determines the font that will be used for the data window axis labels and scales. Note that not all fonts allow rotated Y axis labels. If the...

278 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M General Display Layout tab page Allows you to specify the most basic display functions, with the option of saving them asthe default. Descriptions follow. See Chapter 6 for examples and additional information. Parameters Display Type: When a data file is opened, i...

280 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Get/Set Parameters dialog box See Diagnostics: Get/Set Parameters dialog box discussion on page 265. Hardware LUT dialog box (PentaMAX) The Hardware LUT dialog box (Figure 243) is opened by clicking on Hardware LUT onthe Acquisition menu. Its purpose is to determi...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 281 Bit Range 0-128: Displays the bottom 128 gray levels. Suited to viewing low light level images. Bit Range 0-256: Displays the bottom 256 gray levels. Suited to viewing low light level images. Bit Range 2-512: Displays 256 gray levels corresponding to data values...

282 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Help menu The Help menu (Figure 244) provides several ways of accessing WinView/32 Help. Contents: Clicking on Contents opens the WinView/32 Information Desk, which contains three tab pages, Contents, Index and Find. Contents works like a table of contents. Organi...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 283 Image Layout tab page This page allows you to select how the image and zoom aspect ratios are controlled. Itadditionally allows the image contrast and brightness to be changed. Parameters Color Bar: If checked, causes the color bar to appear above the image disp...

284 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Zoom Factor Variable and Aspect Ratio Variable: Image size changes if window is resized by dragging corner or one of the edges, which can be draggedindependently. Complete image remains in window but it distorts as required tofill the window. Brightness and Contra...

286 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Information box If Info is selected on the View menu and data is displayed, an information box for the active data window will appear on the desktop. For image displays, the intensity in A/Dcounts is reported at the X and Y position corresponding to the cursor pos...

288 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Interactive Camera Operation dialog box(MicroMAX or ST-133) If the controller is a MicroMAX or ST-133, clicking on Video Focus from the Acquisition menu will open the Interactive Camera Operation dialog box. This dialogbox allows focusing to be quickly accomplishe...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 289 Offset: The Offset adjustment allows precise adjustment of the image brightness by enabling counts to be subtracted from every data point in the image. The higherthe offset setting, the larger the values that are subtracted and the darker theimage becomes. Offse...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 291 Interactive Camera Operation dialog box(PentaMAX) This box is opened by clicking on Video Focus from the Acquisition menu (PentaMAX Controller). This dialog box allows focusing to be quickly accomplished in“real time” by making the adjustments while observing th...

292 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Zoom (ver 5 or higher): The 1× setting indicates that the CCD image will be binned or decimated so that the video monitor shows the entire CCD image at reducedresolution. The 2× setting shows a portion of the CCD image, but atapproximately 1:1 resolution. Since yo...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 293 Label dialog box Right clicking inside an ROI causes the ROI context menu to appear. Selecting Label Display on the ROI context menu opens the Label dialog box (Figure 252) inside the ROI. The Label dialog box allows loading a previously saved label (from one on...

294 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Load Factory Defaults dialog box This dialog box, which is opened by selecting Load Factory Defaults on the Setup menu, and then selecting From INI File allows the factory supplied *.INI file to be reloaded to re-establish the parameter values in effect when the s...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 295 This dialog box, which is opened by selecting Load Factory Defaults on the Setup menu, and then selecting From Controller allows the values stored in the Controller’s NVRAM to be reloaded. Features Load NVRAM Defaults: This button causes the faults in the select...

296 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Parameters Exposure Time: The Exposure Time is the amount of time the shutter will open to collect data. If no shutter is present, the Exposure Time will be the time betweenreadouts. # of Images: This is the number of sequential images the software will collect an...

298 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Control Buttons: Acquire: Initiates a data-collection run in which all data frames are stored. Focus: Initiates a data-collection run in which the data is not stored until Start Storage is selected. OK: Saves the changes and closes the Experiment Setup window with...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 299 Math dialog box Selecting Image Math on the Process Menu opens the Image Math dialog box(Figure 259), which allows mathematical operations to be performed on a file, orbetween two data files, with the result written to an output file. The Image Math dialogbox co...

300 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Menu Bar Below the Title bar is the Menu Bar, which allows you to open the menus that controlthe various WinView/32 functions. Menus having to do with basic WinView/32functions are located to the left. The Help menu is at the far right. Note that one letter ofeach...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 301 Online Threshold Setup Selecting On-Line Thresholding Setup on the Experiment Setup Processes tab page opens the Online Thresholding Setup dialog box. This box allows you to independently enable the Minimum and Maximum threshold tests and set the thresholdvalues...

302 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Open dialog box Selecting Open on the File menu opens the Open dialog box (Figure 263). This box givesinformation about the data files that have been saved and allows you to select them fordisplay and processing. Scrollbars appear if the number of titles exceeds w...

304 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Operation tab page See Chapter 9 for additional information. Linear Operations Addition: The A file is added, pixel by pixel, to the B file and the results written to the C file. It is also possible to add a constant entered on the B tab page to each point on the ...

306 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Pixel value in A 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 10 1 0 1 1365 Corresponding pixel value in B 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 63 Result written to C 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1386 Complement: For each pixel value n in the A file, the corresponding value in the output file C is set to -1-n. O...

308 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Parameters tab page (Binning and Skipping) The Binning and Skipping Parameters tab page allows the bin size to be setindependently in the X and Y directions. The Skipping parameter sets the interval between bins. The Skipping parameter size canbe independently set...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 315 Parameters tab page (Threshold and Clipping) The Parameters tab page allows you to control the Clipping and Threshold functions.Clipping an image causes pixels outside the specified range to be changed. When ClipHigh is selected, all pixels with values greater t...

316 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M PG-200 Comm Port tab page Allows you to set the communications port and parameters for communications betweenthe computer and the PG-200. Additionally provides for initializing the port. SeeChapter 13 for additional information. Parameters Port Type: Determines wh...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 317 Apply Changed Settings button, which sends only the new parameters to the PG-200. OK: Click on this button to close the dialog. Selecting this button does not automatically program the pulser/timing generator. To program the selectedvalues into the timing genera...

318 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M PG-200 Pulsing tab page The Pulsing tab page allows you to set the gate pulse characteristics of the PG-200Pulser. Through the Continuous and Sequential setup screens, it allows you to set the pulse width and the delay between application of a trigger and the time...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 319 Apply Changed Settings button, which sends only the new parameters to the PG-200. OK: Click on this button to close the dialog. Selecting this button does not automatically program the pulser/timing generator. To program the selectedvalues into the timing genera...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 323 Name: If not using the default name for the sequence value file, enter the file name in the provided text box. The button at the end of the box opens a browser tofacilitate assigning the file location. Software Accumulations: Sets the number of exposures to be t...

326 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Control Buttons: Apply Changed Settings: Clicking on this button immediately sends any changed dialog values to the PG-200 Pulser. For example, if the Pulse Width and TriggerFrequency have been changed since the last time the pulser was programmed,only those value...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 327 Selecting Print on the file menu opens a standard Windows 95 Print dialog box like thatin Figure 284. The box is used to select the printer, configure the printer settings, selectthe pages to print and the number of copies. You also have the option of printing t...

328 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Prev Page: Allows you to step backwards sequentially through the pages of a multiple image file. Two Page: Causes two pages to be displayed at a time in a side-by-side layout. Zoom In: Allows you to zoom in on the previewed page, allowing a selected area to be exa...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 329 Selecting Print Setup on the File menu opens the Print Setup dialog box such as that inFigure 287. This box allows you to select the printer and make basic operating selectionsfor it, such as paper size and source, and orientation (portrait vs. landscape). Prope...

330 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Sharpening: Opens the Sharpening window, which contains the tab pages that control the Sharpening function. See Chapter 10 for additional information. Smoothing: Opens the Smoothing window, which contains the tab pages that control the Smoothing function. See Chap...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 331 Processes tab page Thresholding Allows a threshold test to be performed on data as it is acquired. The threshold test isperformed after background subtraction and flatfield correction but before softwareaccumulation. Data that falls within the threshold range re...

332 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Properties window Right clicking on a file name (Open dialog box or Explorer) and selecting Properties willopen the Properties window as shown in Figure 290. If PI Shell Extension was installed as described in Chapter 1, there will be three file property pages, th...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 333 PTG Aux Trig Out tab page Sets the delay to the Auxiliary Trigger Output with respect to the PTG trigger time. Theminimum delay is 25 ns and the longest is 10 ms. The resolution is 0.04 ns. Control Buttons: Download to PTG: Clicking on this button immediately se...

334 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M PTG Comm Port tab page Allows you to set the communications port and parameters for communications betweenthe computer and the pulser/timing generator. Additionally provides for initializing theport. See Chapter 13 for additional information. Parameters Port Type:...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 335 PTG Continuous Pulsing Setup dialog box When Continuous pulsing, the Pulse Width and Pulse Delay remain constant at thevalues specified. They can be entered directly or you can use the spin wheels to achievethe wanted settings. The units are selected from the dr...

336 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Pulse Delay: The pulse delay is the time between the beginning of the trigger pulse (either internal or external) and the beginning of the photocathode gate pulse.The units available are nanoseconds (nsec), microseconds (µsec), or milliseconds(msec). Only some val...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 337 PTG Pulse Counter The Pulse Counter dialog box, which is opened by clicking on Pulse Counter on the Acquisition menu, reports the number of gate commands sent to the PI-MAX by the PTG. A new reading is taken each time the Read button is clicked. Both main and bu...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 339 PTG Pulse Sequence Setup dialog box In Pulse Sequential operation, the Pulse Width and Pulse Delay change over the courseof the measurement. This sweep can be accomplished linearly ( Fixed Increment type) or exponentially ( Exponential Increment type). Linear se...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 343 Control Buttons: OK: Saves the specified parameter values and closes the dialog box, returning you to the PTG window. Cancel: Closes the dialog box without saving any of the specified values. Help: Accesses context-sensitive help for this window. PTG Triggers ta...

344 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Termination: In the External trigger mode, the Termination radio buttons allow you to choose whether the trigger applied to the PTG will see a termination impedanceof 50 or High . Control Buttons: Download to PTG: Clicking on this button immediately sends all curr...

346 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Control Buttons: OK: Executes the selection and closes the dialog box. Help: Access context-sensitive help for the Pulsers dialog box. Pulsing tab page See: DG-535 Pulsing tab page: pg. 256 PG-200 Pulsing tab page: pg. 318 PTG Pulsing tab page: pg. 337 Range Displ...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 347 Parameters Intensity: If displaying the data as an image, allows you to set the range of data that will be mapped to the display. Displays generally are capable of displaying 256(8 bits) gray levels. Depending on the makeup of your particular system and theexper...

348 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M you are attempting to do spectrograph adjustments. Suppose that initiallylittle more than dark noise is displayed. With this low signal level, the auto-scale algorithm sets the gain to a high value to display the data. As theadjustment proceeds, the point might be...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 349 Record Macro dialog box Allows Visual Basic script macros to be entered and recorded.Not fully functional prior to software version 2.5. ROI Context menu If the mouse is right clicked outside the ROI, the normal context menu appears. The ROIcontext menu contains...

350 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Note: If you have a PCI card, and your controller is other than a MicroMAX or PentaMAX, you must ensure that the number of pixels to be read out is always an evennumber. A warning will appear if this is not the case. If you are doing binning, thenumber of pixels d...

352 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M OK: Click on OK to save the changes and close the Experiment Setup window without initiating a data collection run. Cancel: Click on this button to close the Experiment Setup window without making any changes. Help: Opens context-sensitive help for whichever tab p...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 353 Save as type: Indicates the file type. The data types currently supported are listed in Figure 313. If All Files (*.*) is selected, you will be able to save the file withwhatever arbitrary extension you specify. The file, however, will be saved in the*.SPE file ...

354 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Save/Load Setup tab page The Save/Load tab page allows you to save a complete experiment setup or load apreviously saved one from disk. Save: Clicking the Save button allows you to save to disk all of the Experiment Setup parameters as specified on the Experiment ...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 355 Control Buttons: Acquire: Clicking on Acquire initiates a data-collection run in which all data frames are stored. Focus: Clicking on Focus initiates a data-collection run in which the data is not stored until Start Storage is selected. OK: Click on OK to save t...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 357 Sequential Pulsing Setup See: DG-535: pg. 258 PG-200: pg. 319 PTG: pg. 339 Setup menu Hardware: Opens the Hardware Setup window (page 281), which contains the tab pages that tailor the software to the user’s particular system components. Blemish Removal Pattern:...

358 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Diagnostics: This command opens the Diagnostics menu, which allows the different diagnostics commands to be selected. See discussion of Diagnostics menu onpage 265 for additional information. Setup Wizard The Hardware Setup Wizard runs the first time you select Se...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 361 Split Frame dialog box Allows you to split a multi-frame file into its constituent frames. The original file isretained and each frame is saved in a separate located in the same folder as the original.Numbers are appended to indicate the frame number. For exampl...

362 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Help Topics: List Help Topics. Equivalent to selecting Search for Help On on the Help menu. Context Sensitive Help: Note that this is a two-step operation. The first step is to click on this button. The second is to click on the men item, button,or dialog box sele...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 365 Intensity Levels Max: Maximum intensity level in the ROI. Min: Minimum intensity level in the ROI. total: Sum of all intensity values in the ROI. avg: Sum of all intensity values divided by the number of pixels. sigma: Standard deviation of all the intensity val...

366 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Timer: The right-most pane is the Data Collection Timer. During an acquisition, it reports the elapsed time since initiating the run. Otherwise it reports thecomputer clock time. Clicking on this pane allows you to toggle the count up ordown. Temperature See Detec...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 367 Control Buttons: OK: Click on this button to close the Timing Generator Interactive Pulse Width and Delay dialog box. On clicking on OK , the new parameter values are sent to the Timing Generator. Cancel: The Cancel button exits the Timing Generator Interactive ...

368 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Timing tab page This page controls the controller timing parameters. Although all of the possibleselections are discussed in the following paragraphs, note that not all of them will beavailable with any particular controller model. Parameters Timing Mode: The Timi...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 371 Focus: Clicking on Focus initiates a data-collection run in which the data is not stored until Start Storage is selected. OK: Click on OK to save the changes and close the Experiment Setup window without initiating a data collection run. Cancel: Click on this bu...

372 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Triggers tab page See: DG-535 Triggers tab page: pg. 262. PG-200 Triggers tab page: pg. 323. PTG Triggers tab page: pg. 343. TTL Diagnostics dialog box This screen allows the Controller’s TTL communications to be tested. This functionwould ordinarily be used in co...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 373 TTL Out The state of the TTL OUT lines can be set from the TTL Diagnostics dialog box.Checking the box associated with an output bit designation sets it’s level high (+5 V; bitON). If the box is left unchecked, the output bit is low (0 V; bit OFF). Versions &...

374 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M V/ICCD Focus - Camera tab page This tab page (Figure 336), accessed by selecting Video Focus on the Acquisition Setup menu with V/ICCD as the selected controller, gives you software control over thebasic V/ICCD operating parameters. Parameters Exposure: There is n...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 375 Gamma Circuit: When checked, turns on the gamma function, displaying the video with a gamma of nominally 0.45. The effect is an overall brightening of the mid-range values in the picture. In effect, the brightness scaling of the scene iscompressed to achieve gre...

376 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Parameters Offset: The Offset parameter allows the video to be shifted negatively. The range is in arbitrary units from 0 to 99 and the default setting is 10.0. The higher the setting,the larger the offset that will be subtracted from every pixel in the image, ine...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 377 View menu This menu ( Figure 338) provides user control over the items that will appear on theWinView/32 desktop. A description of each function follows. Toolbars: Allows you to choose which toolbar(s) will be displayed. Note that the Data Window Toolbar is sele...

378 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Virtual Chip dialog box Clicking Virtual Chip on the Setup menu opens the Virtual Chip dialog box as shown in Figure 340. This screen is used to set the parameters for Virtual Chip operation, aspecial fast-acquisition technique that allows frame rates in excess of...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 381 Window menu The Window menu (Figure 343) is primarily concerned with how data windows aredisplayed on the desktop. Descriptions follow. New: If a data file is open and active, selecting New Graph, New Image or New 3D Graph will cause a second window containing t...

382 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Arrange Icons: If images have been reduced to icons by minimizing them, selecting Arrange Icons will arrange the icons in a neat row at the bottom of the desktop.If there is an open data file window at the bottom of the main window, thensome or all of the icons ma...

384 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Close All: This selection closes all open data windows. 1, 2, 3…..: Open files are listed in numerical sequence at the end of the menu. Selecting a file on the list, either by clicking on the name of the file or by simply keyingthe file number with the menu displa...

Chapter 15 Menus and Dialog Boxes 385 WinX Data Player dialog box The WinX32 Data Playback Snap-In plays back as a movie a multiple-frame image filecollected with the WinX32 program. The “movie” is displayed in the standard DataWindow. Parameters and Buttons: Select WinX Data File: Opens a browser t...

388 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M 150 int rtanum; /* Not used by WinView */ 152 int astdiode; /* Not used by WinView */ 154 int int78; /* Not used by WinView */ 156 int int79; /* Not used by WinView */ 158 double calibpol[4]; /* Not used by WinView */ 190 int int96; /* Not used by WinView */ 192 i...

Appendix A Data Structure 391 /* (Future Item) */ unsigned int SWmade; /* 1508 Software which created this file */ int NumROI; /* 1510 number of ROIs used. if 0 assume 1 */ /* 1512 - 1630 ROI information */ struct ROIinfo { /* */ unsigned int startx; /* left x start value. */ unsigned int endx; /* r...

392 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M /* in the "polynom_coeff" */ char polynom_order; /* 3101 ORDER of calibration POLYNOM */ char calib_count; /* 3102 valid calibration data pairs */ double pixel_position[10];/* 3103 pixel pos. of calibration data */ double calib_value[10]; /* 3183 calibrati...

396 WinView/32 Manual Version 2.4.M Y Calib: calib_count .......... 3591 E07 Y Calib: pixel_position[1] .... 3592 E08 Y Calib: pixel_position[2] .... 3600 E10 Y Calib: pixel_position[3] .... 3608 E18 Y Calib: pixel_position[4] .... 3616 E20 Y Calib: pixel_position[5] .... 3624 E28 Y Calib: pixel_pos...

399 Appendix B CD ROM FailureWork-arounds Although not common, there are CD drives that are not compatible with the Win ’95long filename convention. Attempting to install on such a system causes the filenames tobe truncated and the install fails, causing a message like: An error occurred during the ...

401 Index # of Images, 296.SPE to ASCII convert snap-in, 2033152 Frame Grabber, 873152 tab page, 2113D graph cursor control, 238 3D Graph display, 1163D Layout tab page 3D Mode, 2043D Properties, 205Marker Curves, 206Z Axis Endpoint, 125, 205 3D Mode Multi-Strip, Same Frame, 205Same Strip, multifram...