General tools and documentation for the science tools checkout
The tools in this category are gtselect, exposure_cube, and exposure_map. Descriptions of these tools and links to any documentation are in the science tools section of the User Workbook.
This section is also being used for comments on the user-level documentation and on user interface issues.
Please edit this page to include results, issues, advice, etc., or links to these.
(29 September 2005) Eduardo's report on trying to run the tools under Windows also has some comments about documentation.
(28 September 2005) (Excerpted from the report by Jean Ballet)
- Documentation
The User's documentation (workbook) is a vast improvement. Regarding the overall organization, I wonder why in the SciTools References bar gtexpmap appears under the General heading. I don't imagine what purpose this can serve outside likelihood. On the other hand, gtbin should appear under General (it is listed only under GRB).
It would be nice if the ScienceTools part of the User's workbook could be distributed with the Science Tools and run locally (rather than depend on the web). - General settings
- Verbosity: The chatter parameter does not seem to have a large effect on most tasks.
- Graphical User interface: At checkout2, a mechanism was introduced for several tasks,
whereby they could be called with the setting gui=Y and conjure up a GUI. This is not documented at all, and does not seem to have moved forward since checkout 2. It is still not supported by most tasks. I have checked gtbin, on which I had declared STGEN-14. The GUI comes up, but nothing happens in my surroundings when I click on Run. The list of parameters is still truncated.