Introduction
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
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-procsdirectory in your private or sharedUser Proceduresfolder, and copy the PEARL Procedures distribution there. - Create shortcuts of the
pearl-arpes.ipfandpearl-menu.ipffiles, and move them to theIgor Proceduresfolder next to yourUser Proceduresfolder. - Find the
HDF5.XOP(HDF5-64.xopfor Igor 7 64-bit) extension in theIgor Pro FolderunderMore Extensions/File Loaders(More Extensions (64-bit)/File Loaders), create a shortcut, and move the shortcut to theIgor Extensionsfolder next to yourUser Proceduresfolder. - Find the
HDF5 Help.ihfnext toHDF5.XOP, create a shortcut, and move the shortcut to theIgor Help Filesfolder next to yourUser Proceduresfolder.
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.
License
The source code of PEARL Procedures is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0 at https://git.psi.ch/pearl-public/igor-procs. Please read and respect the respective license agreements. Please acknowledge the use of the code and share your extensions with the original author.
Author
Matthias Muntwiler, mailto:matthias.muntwiler@psi.ch
Copyright
Copyright 2009-2018 by Paul Scherrer Institut
Release Notes
rev-distro-2.0.0
- 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.
rev-distro-1.1.1
- 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.)