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Controls and Programs:Using Python With MX

James F. FaitBill Lavender

MX Client/Server

• MxServer -- Linux or Windows– Interface to Hardware– Multiple Servers on Beamline

• MX Client Programs– Motor– MXGUI– ImcaGUI– Optimize– Python MX GUI

Tcl/Tk User Interface

• Existing GUIs Used at IMCA, others

• MXGUI -- Staff Level UI

• IMCAGUI -- Crystallographic Setup– MAD Fluorescence scans and Analysis– Periodic Table for Edge Setup

• Optimize -- Intensity Optimization

• Auto-Optimize -- “One Button” Setup

Imcagui User Interface

Selecting an Absorption Edge

Python User Interface

• Similar look and feel to Tcl/Tk user GUI

• Implemented with Tkinter and PMW

• Uses native mp binding for Mx

• Better performance than Tcl/Tk

Attenuation Widget

Thermocouple Logger

Mono RTD Logger

Beam Position Monitor

• 4 PIN Diodes • 0.5 μm Chromium Foil• Back Fluorescence• Less than 1μrad tune

sensitivity, 5 μm displacement.

• Automatic tune adjustment software, for slow changes in tune.

BPM Tune Response

2nd Crystal Tune Feedback

Main User GUI

Periodic Table for MAD Setup

Crystal Alignment