AutoIt program and script compilation » History » Revision 4
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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).