CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
* Interactive Data Language.
** X-ray Oriented Programs.
*** SHADOW was developed at Nanotech-Wisconsin (University of Wisconsin).
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| THCOMA03 | Using ezcaIDL to connect to EPICS Channel Access from SHADOWVUI for Dynamic X-ray Tracing | 109 |
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Using the ezcaIDL library, for IDL*, to provide an interface to EPICS Channel Access through the EZCA library, a simple XOP** extension was written that initializes ezcaIDL and thus allows access to a set of simplified IDL interface commands to connect to Channel Access from within XOP and also from SHADOWVUI. The XOP widget-based driver program is a commonly used front-end interface for computer codes of interest to the synchrotron radiation community. It models x-ray sources and characterizes optics. Extensions, such as SHADOWVUI, are optionally loaded to easily expand its functionality. An essential tool for x-ray optics calculations is the ray-tracing program SHADOW***. A complete Visual User Interface for SHADOW (SHADOWVUI) is an interactive tool for designing an optical system and visualizing results as graphs, histograms. The working scheme is to define the source and the optical elements by entering parameters. The author has taken the usual SHADOWVUI simulation of an x-ray system a step further by using ezcaIDL to interface with the EPICS control system to access the positions of optical components in real life and then run a corresponding simulation based upon these.
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