MIKE-GUI Software Documentation (X11)
Location of this document:
http://instrumentation.obs.carnegiescience.edu/Software/MIKE/mikegui2.html
Startup the MIKE-GUI by typing at an xterm:
- mikegui [-h 14]
- -h: font height (default=18)
- Configuration Window
- Main Window
- Menu - File
- Menu - Options
- QuickLook Tool
Configuration Window
- Observer: [edit] : observer's name
- Camera: [menu] : {Blue,Red,Blue+Red}
- Select one or both cameras.
- [menu] : {online,simulator}
- simulator: for tests with no dewar
- online: dewar electronics are connected and running
- Overscan: number of overscan pixels at the end of the readout line.
- Biaslines: number of bias lines after the CCD lines.
- CCD-Host: hostname of computer that is running the 'CCDserver'
- PLC: [menu] : {offline, online }
- offline: for tests with no PLC connected
- online: mechanics and electronics connected and running
- Telescope: [menu] : { Simulator,Baade_Mag_1,Clay_Mag_2 }
- [menu] : telescope status { offline,online }
- ADC-GUI Host: hostname of computer that is running the 'ADC-GUI'
- If you leave the field empty, the MIKE-GUI will not query the ADC status.
Main Window
Menu - File
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Reset/Color: reset the 'blue/red' mikeserver (reloads the
DSP code).
Help: opens
this
web page.
Exit GUI: closes the MikeGUI.
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Menu - Options
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Observer: opens a dialog that allows to change
the observer name (FITS keyword).
DataPath: opens a dialog that allows to change
the path for the data (FITS) files.
Sounds: opens a dialog that allows to define
sounds for certain events.
QLook/Color-Size: opens the QuickLook Tool.
DewarStatus/Color: opens a window that shows the
dewar status
Voltages/Color: opens a dialog that allows to
set the CCD voltages.
Slit-Position: opens a dialog that allows to
manually move the slit position.
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- Observer:
- DataPath:
- Sounds:
- The are are 3 ways a sound may be defined:
- 1) string in quotes, eg "shutter closed" will speak those words.
- 2) filename (no quotes) will play the sound-file (absolute path).
- 3) empty will use the standard keyboard beep.
- DewarStatus:
- Voltages:
- engineering only
- Note: The voltages on the image above are not
the actually used ones. They are for illustration only.
- Slit-Position:
- engineering only
QuickLook Tool
Instrument Software Documentation Index
April 2003,
Christoph C. Birk, Carnegie Observatories