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 that has the series movie acquired from TuiAcquire.exe test above.

# Make sure Export Series Shortcut is expanded like in this screenshot

## !TIAexport.png!

# Double click TiaExportSeries.exe

You should see the cursor moving to the shortcut, click it and going through the export process.  The script should save the series as C:\Users\supervisor\Documents\FEI\TIA\Exported Data\test_t_*.bin

AutoIt Script clicks Export Series shortcut icon at a relative position to the corner of the window. If you observe that the position is off, please edit the script at the line

<pre>

   Local $aExportPos[2] = [47, 273]

</pre>

You can use AutoIt Window Info (part of AutoIt program installation) to find the coordinates that needs to replace 47, 273 (col, row).