wxMCA Software bundle

wxMCA Components

wxMCA software components. It has been implemented on x86/x64/ARM under Win 7/8/10 (signed driver) and Linux
wxMCA – Components
documentation	html documentation; start point is english/introduction/introduction.html
examples	Data acquisition examples for all MCA
extensions	Optional extensions or customer-specific code.
rad_config	Configuration files used for all code components.
user	A default area for users to store data.
wxGUI	Graphics user interface code, written with wxPython and Matplotlib; wxGUI/MCA_Main.py starts the GUI.
mds	MCA Data Server
run_mds.cmd	Start MCA Data Server on Windows.
run_wxMCA.cmd	Start wxMCA GUI on Windows.

Purpose

The wxMCA software bundle provides the MCA Data Server and the wxGUI/MCA_Main.py which is the GUI client to the MDS.

Further, it includes simple data acquisition examples for all MCA from which more advanced applications can be built.

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.

On Windows

./wxMCA/run_mds.com will launch the MCA Data Server. Note that only one copy of the MDS may run at any time.

run_wxMCA.com will launch the graphical user interface via ./wxMCA/wxGUI/MCA_Main.py

On Linux

Open a terminal in the wxMCA folder and make sure your python3 command points to a Python 3.7 (or higher) installation that also includes ZMQ, wxPython and Matplotlib.

sudo python3 ./mds/mca_server.py (or ./run_mds.sh) will launch the MCA Data Server. Note that you need root privileges to run the MDS. Only one copy of the MDS may run at any time.

python3 ./wxGUI/MCA_Main.py (or ./run_wxMCA.sh) will launch the graphical user interface.

Run the examples

The same methods as before apply. Most examples have an associated run_*.cmd file that can be used to run the example under Windows.

For Linux, open a terminal in the examples folder of interest and run the python script as before.

wxMCA Package