wxMCA Software bundle

wxGUI Components

wxGUI software components. It has been implemented on x86/x64/ARM under Win 10 and Linux (Ubuntu)
wxMCA – Components
MCA_Main.py	The GUI main program
*_wx.py	Independent GUI clients for data display and controls.
controls/	Folder with configuration files used for all code components.

Description

The wxGUI provides a graphical user interface to control and calibrate an MCA and acquire data. It does not provide data analysis beyond a peak fit.

User-programmable configurations are stored in rad_config and subfolders. The configurations for the GUI itself are in wxGUI/controls/emorpho and similar. The "help" strings in the wxGUI/controls files can be edited and translated into a different language.

wxGUI/controls

wxGUI Controls

The GUI code is common to all MCA. The differences between the MCA are encoded in the wxGUI/controls data files.
wxGUI – controls
commands.json	Some often used commands are listed here.
device_controls.json	All the controls and status entries from the main window are listed here. These are data communicated with the MCA.
display_controls.json	Parameters for the graphics displays.
main_menu.json	Folder with configuration files used for all code components.
plot_controls.json	Folder with configuration files used for all code components.

wxGUI/controls

commands.json: A number of commands are used repeatedly within the GUI. To enforce consistency, they are listed here and read by the GUI on start up.

device_controls.json: The spreadsheet-like data displays in the main GUI window are controlled from this file. It consists entirely of data stored in the embedded ARM processor of each MCA.

display_controls.json: From the main pull-down menus the customer can launch various displays, for histograms, etc. All display and operations controls are loaded from this file; eg the fit range for a peak fit in a histogram.

main_menu.json: The contents of this file is used to populate the pull down menu with the actions that are apprpriate for each MCA.

plot_controls.json: The contents of this file governs the appearance of the graphical displays. Edit to change titles, lablels, colors, line thicknesses etc.

wxGUI Language

Language: For each item in any of the controls/ files there is a help-string. This help string can be translated into a different language – in order to present the wxGUI in a language other than English.

New Language: To provide a translation of the GUI into another language, eg Chinese, follow these steps.

New folder: Duplicate the entire folder controls and name it controls_cn. Translate all the help strings inside the new folder into Chinese.

Redirect controls root: In the original controls folder, edit gui_controls.json. Change "controls_root": "./controls/" to "controls_root": "./controls_cn/"