Changeset 208 for trunk/tutorial1/nickel5.html

Timestamp:

Dec 4, 2009 5:02:12 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

toby

Message:

# on 2000/06/09 03:57:42, toby did:
incorporate many useful comments by Egbert Keller

File:

• trunk/tutorial1/nickel5.html (modified) (1 diff, 3 props)

trunk/tutorial1/nickel5.html

@@ -48 +48 @@
 progress, as is shown above. 
 <P>
-Since POWPREF modifies the .EXP file,
-a message, as shown to the left, is displayed.
-Pressing "Load new" causes the new .EXP file to be reread. 
-Pressing "Continue editing" causes EXPGUI to continue to edit the 
-previous version of the .EXP file. If more changes are made, and
-the .EXP file is saved, the changes made by POWPREF will be lost.
-POWPREF makes only minor changes to the .EXP file, so there 
-is little reason to reject the changes, but if a program, such
-as GENLES has made many incorrect changes to an experiment, the 
-"Continue editing" option provides an easy way to keep the .EXP file
-from before the run.
+The exact behavior of the window after the run completes is somewhat 
+system-dependent. In Windows-95 and UNIX you must press the "Enter" or 
+"Return" key for the run to complete, but in Windows-NT this is not 
+the case. For both versions of Windows, you may or may not need to 
+close the window manually once the run is complete, depending on your 
+system's settings.
+<P>
+Every time that EXPGUI detects that a change has been made in the .EXP file
+by another program (in this case by POWPREF) this message appears to offer
+to choices: to continue using the previously read file or to reload the 
+changed file. If you press the "Continue editing" button, EXPGUI will 
+ignore the changes in the .EXP file made by POWPREF, but if you press
+the "Load new", these changes are read and accepted. 
+<P>
+In this case press
+"Load new" to use the results of POWPREF. However if a program 
+makes changes to the .EXP file that you do not like 
+(this is most common with GENLES, when a refinement diverges) 
+you can reject the changes by pressing "Continue editing." When the 
+.EXP file is later changes and saved, it will overwrite the results in 
+the rejected run.
 
 <P><BR>(.EXP Snapshot: