BCDA SPEC Related Concepts, Tools, and Projects

Concepts and Tool Use

• NEW! Using colored text in spec screen output wiki:SpecColorText
• NEW! Metadata storage in spec scan files wiki:SpecScanFileMetadata
• NEW! When should spec be started 'fresh'? wiki:SpecFreshStart
• Recommended spec coding practices wiki:SpecStyleGuide
• ​Installation of spec at a beamline
• How to use SVN with the spec repository wiki:SpecSvnUse
  • ​Good SVN reference
• How to get the length of associative array wiki:SpecAssociativeArray
• How to use cdef wiki:SpecCdefUse
• How to create a pseudo motor wiki:SpecPseudoMotorCreate
• How to use read_mode in the config file wiki:SpecConfigFileRead_modeUse

Common SPEC Errors

• Some common errors encountered in SPEC wiki:SpecErrors

Related projects

• Specdomain (​https://subversion.xray.aps.anl.gov/trac/bcdaext/wiki/SpecDomain/) for documenting SPEC macros
• APSpy (​https://subversion.xray.aps.anl.gov/trac/bcdaext/wiki/APSpy) for Python control of beam line
• spec2nexus (​http://spec2nexus.readthedocs.org) Python code to convert SPEC data files and scans into NeXus? HDF5 files (installed in /APSshare/epd)

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BCDA SPEC Macro Repository

This repository contains source code for spec macros at APS beam lines.

• XSD subversion server: ​https://subversion.xray.aps.anl.gov/
• SVN repo: ​https://subversion.xray.aps.anl.gov/spec/
• TRAC: ​https://subversion.xray.aps.anl.gov/trac/spec/browser
• All active TRAC tickets: {1}

project	links	summary
Spec	​docs	SPEC macro storage and sharing

Spec: active tickets

Ticket	Created	Status	Resolution	Summary	Owner	Reporter
#2	7 years	assigned		reorganize SVN repo directories	jkirchman	jemian
#1	9 years	new		improve documentation of epics_mca	jiaox	jemian

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Starting Points

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
• ​The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
• ​Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
• TracSupport -- Trac Support

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.