Leginon

h1. AutoIt program, script compilation and testing

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, for example, *C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\* 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 if you have not done so.

# 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

h3. Beamstop

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

h3. TUIAcquire

# Go to TUI interface and CCD/TV Camera panel.

# Select BM-Ceta

# Double click on TuiAcquire.exe to execute.  This is most likely to fail in some of the validation steps.  Make correction to these settings and try again.

# When all validations are passed, you should see TIA starts acquiring movie series using Acquire preset of the CCD/TV Camera panel.

# Double click on TuiAcquire.exe again to stop movie series acquisition.

h3. TiaExportSeries

# Select TEM Imaging & Analysis (TIA) Window

# Make sure Export Series Shortcut is shown like in this screenshot !TIAexport.png!