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1. Set up your release work directory:
   You should always run this code from your own release working directory.
   See the Account Setup section to set up the analysis environment. Set up your release working directory from pslogin:

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   [user@pslogin ~] newrel ana-current myrelease [user@pslogin ~] cd myrelease [user@pslogin myrelease] sit_setup

   
   
2. Add the package:
   This step is optional. Since release ana-0.3.7, xtcexplorer has been built into the release so you can skip to (3).
   Checking out a local copy is beneficial, though! That will enable you to edit the source files and customise the analysis.
   
   You need an afs token to check out the package, so if you didn't already you need to run 'kinit' first:

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   [user@pslogin myrelease] kinit Password for user@SLAC.STANFORD.EDU:

   Now you're ready to check out the package and "compile":

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   [user@pslogin myrelease] addpkg XtcExplorer [user@pslogin myrelease] scons

   Note! You can also do 'addpkg XtcExplorer VXX-XX-XX' to get a specific version of the package, or to get the most recent one, do 'addpkg XtcExplorer HEAD', but be aware that it may look different from described here, and might have fresh bugs as well as new features. Currently the latest tagged version (to appear in the release shortly) is V00-01-06 which has a few bug fixes and improvements for pyana_image w.r.t. the current release.
   
   
3. Run the program:
   Launch the GUI with the command 'xtcexplorer' and optionally give the input xtc files that you want to read
   as arguments. You can also browse to find files after launching the browser.
   
   To have access to the xtc files, you need to login to psana for this:

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   [user@psanaXXX myrelease] sit_setup [user@psanaXXX myrelease] xtcexplorer /reg/d/psdm/CXI/cxi22010/xtc/e60-r0465-s0*

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This module extracts and displays data from IPIMB type detectors. There are two types of information: IpimbData (raw data) and IpmFex (feature extracted data). Only the last type of data is currently implemented, but other data can also be added. Currently the display will show a plot of the intensity measured in each of the four channels, the beam spot position estimated from sums and differences of the individual intensity measurements, and the sum of the four measurements as a function of time. The plot included below has these plots for 4 different IPIMB detector sources.

ipimb_addressessources     # list of IPIMB addresses
variables   # keywords defining what to plot. The following keywords are defined:
            #   fex:pos        plot position based on sum and difference of the 4 diodes
            #   fex:sum        plot sum of signal from all 4 diodes
            #   fex:channels   plot all 4 channels (fex value)
            #   fex:chX        plot fex value from channel X, X=0,1,2,3
            #   raw:chX        plot raw value from channel X, X=0,1,2,3
            #   raw:chXvolt    plot raw voltage from channel X, X=0,1,2,3

Example of how to run this pyana module by itself, i.e. no GUI, processing 300 events and using an xtcexplorer-generated config file:

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