Leginon

h1. AutoIt program and script compilation

h2. Download AutoIt Scripting program on microscope computer

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

h2. 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

h2. Add the locations of the exe files to fei.cfg of your leginon installation

# make a copy of your_myami/pyscope/fei.cfg.template and call it fei_temp.cfg

# compare fei_temp.cfg with your current fei.cfg used for leginon and modify fei_temp.cfg according to your current configuration.

# find the entries related to AUTOIT and fill in the location of your autoit exe files.

h2. Testing

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