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• Default GUI
• Extended GUI
• Internal logger
  

Functionality

LogBookGrabber contains

Buttons

Buttons in the short (default) GUI:

• Grab – click on this button activates cursor to select the window or grab any rectangular area on monitor.
• Load – activates the file selection menu to load the image from file. Image will appear in the Attachement window.
• Reset – clears the graphical Attachement window.
• ELog – submits entire message in ELog
• Save (bottom bar) – saves current configuration in the file confpars-grabber.txt
• Close – closes the window and exit application.
• Select tag – activates the drop-down menu to select the tag from the list of known in the DB.

Buttons in the extended GUI:

• Save (top bar) – saves the image in file. Image is saved in full format in limits as displayed in Attachement window.
• Logger – open the internal logger window.
• Help – displays in the Logger help message about navigation in graphical window.

Check boxes

• More options on/off extended GUI fields.
• Lock fields switch between info and edit field for Experiment.

Edit fields

• Message: – window for message which will be sent to ELog.
• Run number: – run number, which will be associated with this message (the Resp. to ID: should be empty).
• Resp. to ID: – previous message ID number, which will be used for response(the Run number: should be empty).
• Description: – unknown
• Tag – tag associated with message, which can be used in ELog for filtering.

Information filds

• Author – user ID, who is an author of this message.
• Experiment – experiment name, for example amodaq09
• Instrument – instrument name, one of the list AMO, XPP, SXR, XCS, CXI, MEC
• Last submitted message ID: the last successfully submitted message ID number.

Image viewer/editor

• Attachement – graphical window for image which will be attached to the message and will show-up in ELog. This window has a simple graphical editor, which allows to crop the significant part of the image.
  To crop - press left/right mouse button on image, grag, and release in other point of the image. During mouse dragging, the rectangular with dashed-line boarder will show the selected region for zoom-in. Click on middle mouse button undo zoom-in. Up to 10 zoommed-in images can be undo.

How to run application

setenv PYTHONPATH ${PYTHONPATH}:/reg/g/pcds/pds/grabber/lib/python2.7/site-packages

/reg/g/pcds/pds/grabber/bin/LogBookGrabber_qt.py -i <INSTRUMENT> -e <experiment-name> -u <user-name> -p <password> -w <web-service>

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