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== 2011 April 28 == | == 2011 April 28 == | ||
Fixed the following cosmetic issues with the align gui : invisible icons on devel@wolverine or ubuntu ssh, | Fixed the following cosmetic issues with the align gui : invisible icons on devel@wolverine or ubuntu ssh, picos menu size, optimized viewport sizes, optimized icon sizes. | ||
Added greying out buttons during alignment sequence for 4 and 6 beams. The manual Align GUI is now complete and useful ! | |||
Continuing the wraparound coding... I'm contemplating also installing a more recent version of gcc in the future, as vectorization in gcc4.4 should really improve performance. | |||
Revision as of 01:46, 29 April 2011
Daily Log:
2011 April 24:
Xiao filled the dewar before FB arrived, and pressure seems high (3e-6). After refilling both dewars, the pressure went down to 6e-7.
Did the alignment on beams 4, 5, 6 so as not to impede on CLIMB run (+ we need to measure the fringe position again now that the IR5 repeatability problem has been cleared).
All computers had to be rebooted due to a long power outage this night, including lothlorien, wolverine, zoot. Had to restart all servers (shutters, etc.). Green laser is completely disaligned, need to restart crtscrut again to launch server to use pico to realign it...
2011 April 25:
Full alignment with 6 beams done, may look for missing offset B1B6 this week. Started to work on shutter control with RMG, and on loading/saving config files from IRCam. Also starting to review all possible issues when trying 6 beams, FT not ready, need to double check the bootstraping code too.
2011 April 26
Reinstalled CHARA libraries properly. The code now compiles cleanly, everything is on CVS including CHAMP code. Finished the addition of shutter code, working and compliant with CHARA code. RMG modified the alignment sequence for 6 beams. Added the bootstrap for 6 beams (see CHAMP:Documents for the crazy equations...). Started to implement the wraparound carefully.
2011 April 27
RMG finished adding the 6 beam sequence and tested it.
FB worked on trying to integrate the pico controls to the align gui. This took a while but I managed to integrate the controls into the gui, and they do work. However there are cosmetic issues to solve... Also the idea was to be able to use the PicoGui.py code directly, using the equivalent of a C #define depending on whether we use the standalone version or not (in particular we don't want to launch the zaber code in the align gui!). Once this is done, though, the first phase of the alignment gui will be complete (for the second phase we would need to calibrate the picos automatically, and have a close loop positioning of the spots, which should take only ~2 days to implement if we think ahead).
FB also modified the FT gui in prevision for the next run, fixing display issues when using 6 beams. Haven't had the time to continue on the wraparound as we needed the server to run most of the time.
Plan for tomorrow: finish the wraparound and finish integration of the picos to the align gui.
Possible plan for the next days: OPD maps ?, attempt to find the offset for BC61 again
2011 April 28
Fixed the following cosmetic issues with the align gui : invisible icons on devel@wolverine or ubuntu ssh, picos menu size, optimized viewport sizes, optimized icon sizes. Added greying out buttons during alignment sequence for 4 and 6 beams. The manual Align GUI is now complete and useful !
Continuing the wraparound coding... I'm contemplating also installing a more recent version of gcc in the future, as vectorization in gcc4.4 should really improve performance.
