fsc2
Introduction
GUI
Web Server
EDL
Built-in Functions
Device Functions
Other Modules
Using Pulsers
Example EDL Scripts
Command Line Options
GUI-fying
Cloning Devices
Internals
Writing Modules
Installation
Device Reference
Reserved Words
EDL Mode for Emacs and VIM
Acknowledgments
Copying
Index
Table of Contents

Download
Contact

2.1 Main Window

Whenever you start fsc2 the first thing you will see is the following window:

The large white area at the top is a browser for displaying the text of the current EDL script. Below this main browser is another browser for error messages as well as output from the EDL script. On the right side of the browsers is a slider that allows you to move the border between both browsers.

On the left side you have a set of buttons:

• The Load button opens a file selector, allowing you to load a different EDL script.
• The Reload button lets you reload the current EDL script which is needed when you have edited it.
• The Edit button opens an editor with the currently loaded EDL script. Which editor will be used depends on the environment variable EDITOR, if it isn't set vi is used as the default.
• The Test button lets you check an EDL script after it has been loaded. While the test is running the buttons label is changed to Stop Test and can be used to abort the test. After the test finished successfully the label is set back to Test and the button becomes inactive until a new script is loaded (or the current script is reloaded).
• Using the Start button you start the execution of the EDL script. During a short time after the start of the script (while device initialization is done) the button label is changed to Stop to let you abort the experiment already during that stage. When the initialization is finished the label reverts back to Start and the button remains inactive during the experiment.
• The Quit button is used to end fsc2. It can't be used while an experiment is running.
• The WWW Server button lets you start (and stop) a little web server that allows you to monitor the current state of the experiment via a browser from a different computer over the net. Per default, the web server listens for incoming connections on port 8080, so the URL you have to enter in the browser is http://HOST:8080, where HOST is the name of the computer fsc2 is running on. A different port instead of 8080 can be selected via a command line option.
• Pressing the Help button will try to start a browser with the HTML documentation for fsc2. You can select the browser to be used by setting the environment variable BROWSER to the name of your favorite browser (netscape, mozilla, opera, konqueror, galeon, lynx and w3m should work without problems).
• The Bug report button will open an editor window where you can compose a mail with a bug report. The editor that will be used for writing the mail depends on the environment variable EDITOR, if it isn't set vi is used as the default. When you're finished writing the mail fsc2 will let you decide if you really want to send the bug report.

In each button one of the characters of the label is underlined. By pressing the key for this letter each button can be triggered via the keyboard - but note that, if the underlined letter is an uppercase character, you have to enter the uppercase character from the keyboard!

During the test fsc2 may detect problems with the EDL script or even errors. It then will print messages in the lower browser. There are four categories of messages: normal messages, warnings, warnings for severe problems and fatal error messages. Normal messages, not indicating a problem, are printed in black. Warnings are printed in green, messages for severe problems in blue and messages for fatal errors in red (in the latter case the test is also aborted immediately).

To start the experiment click onto the Start button. If the script hasn't been tested a test will be done now and, if the test succeeds, the experiment is started. While the devices are initialized the text of the Start button changes to Stop and clicking on the button lets you interrupt at the device initialization stage. When the device initialization is finished a new window, to be described in the next section, opens up for displaying the measured data.

The next figure shows you the main window of fsc2 with an EDL script loaded and the name of the loaded script being shown in the widow title.

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