PEARL Procedures is a suite of Igor Pro procedures developed for data acquisition and data processing at the PEARL beamline at the Swiss Light Source.
Installation
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PEARL Procedures should be installed according to the regular Igor Pro guidelines. Please read the Igor help `About Igor Pro User Files` for details.
- Make a `pearl-procs` directory in your private or shared `User Procedures` folder, and copy the PEARL Procedures distribution there.
- Create shortcuts of the `pearl-arpes.ipf` and `pearl-menu.ipf` files, and move them to the `Igor Procedures` folder next to your `User Procedures` folder.
- Find the `HDF5.XOP` (`HDF5-64.xop` for Igor 7 64-bit) extension in the `Igor Pro Folder` under `More Extensions/File Loaders` (`More Extensions (64-bit)/File Loaders`), create a shortcut, and move the shortcut to the `Igor Extensions` folder next to your `User Procedures` folder.
- Find the `HDF5 Help.ihf` next to `HDF5.XOP`, create a shortcut, and move the shortcut to the `Igor Help Files` folder next to your `User Procedures` folder.
PEARL Procedures has been tested under Igor Pro version 6.37 (32-bit). Older versions prior to 6.36 are not be compatible. Please update to the latest Igor Pro 6 version before reporting any problems.
PEARL Procedures compiles under Igor 7.00. Some features, in particular 3D graphics, may not work properly.
The source code of PEARL Procedures is available under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) at <https://git.psi.ch/pearl-public/igor-procs>.
Please read and respect the respective license agreements.
- The interface of data reduction functions has changed to make data reduction more efficient in multi-peak fits. The supplied reduction functions and dialogs have been refactored. If you want to use your own reduction functions written for pre-2.0, you have to adapt them to the new interface.
- If you have upgraded PEARL Procedures from pre-1.1.1 and Igor breaks in pearl-elog.ipf while opening an experiment, please delete the ELOG preferences file `pearl-elog/preferences.pxp`. (Check the Igor Help to find the package preferences folder on your system.)
