GDA User Guide

Contents:

• 1. Introduction to the GDA
  • 1.1. The GDA Project
  • 1.2. Logging onto a beamline workstation
  • 1.3. Starting the GDA
  • 1.4. The GDA Client
  • 1.5. Basic Control
  • 1.6. Data Storage
• 2. The GDA Command line
  • 2.1. Background
  • 2.2. Basic Concepts
  • 2.3. Sources for help
• 3. Extended Syntax Commands
• 4. Writing Scripts
  • 4.1. Basic scripting
  • 4.2. coding Standards
  • 4.3. Importing Modules
  • 4.4. Interrupting Scripts
  • 4.5. Matrices
  • 4.6. Advanced Scripting
• 5. Scanning
  • 5.1. The definition of a scan
  • 5.2. Scan commands
  • 5.3. Scan options
  • 5.4. Example scan commands
  • 5.5. Default devices and detectors
  • 5.6. Configuring Scannable movement priority (levels)
• 6. Writing new scannables
  • 6.1. Basic Template
  • 6.2. The Scannable Constructor
  • 6.3. Methods available to implement in the Scannable Interface
  • 6.4. More templates
• 7. Plotting
  • 7.1. ScanFileHolderClass
  • 7.2. DataSet Class
  • 7.3. Peak Fitting
• 8. Data Analysis
  • 8.1. Plotting
• 9. NeXus Data Files
  • 9.1. Overview
  • 9.2. Using NeXus at Diamond.
  • 9.3. relevant Java Properties
  • 9.4. Useful Java Interfaces
  • 9.5. Using NeXus Outside a Scan.
  • 9.6. Capturing Additional Information
  • 9.7. GDA Helper functions

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
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