AutoIt program and script compilation¶

Download AutoIt Scripting program on microscope computer¶

see https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/downloads/

Compile *.au3 files¶

These are found in your_myami/pyscope/autoit/. Right-click on the file icon should allow you to compile. Place the resulting exe files at a common place and remember its location to be added to fei.cfg

Add the locations of the exe files to fei.cfg of your leginon installation¶

1. make a copy of your_myami/pyscope/fei.cfg.template and call it fei_temp.cfg
2. compare fei_temp.cfg with your current fei.cfg used for leginon and modify fei_temp.cfg according to your current configuration.
3. find the entries related to AUTOIT and fill in the location of your autoit exe files.

Testing¶

1. You can click on BeamstopIn.exe and Beamstopout.exe to see if it does what it should be doing.