Investigating Data¶

The Toolbar¶

• - Navigate in the instrument display window (Zoom).
• - Edit a shape.
• - Draw an ellipse.
• - Draw a rectangle.
• - Draw an elliptical ring.
• - Draw a rectangular ring.
• - Draw a circular sector.
• - Draw an arbitrary shape.
• - Select a single detector.
• - Select a tube/bank.
• - Add a single crystal peak.
• - Erase a peak.
• - Compare single crystal peaks.
• - Crystal Peak alignment tool.

Picking a Single Detector¶

The Single Pixel tool displays the detector data in the mini-plot at the bottom of the tab.

Hover the mouse over a detector and see the mini-plot update. To zoom in on this mini-plot, select the button, then click and drag on the mini-plot. If you don’t drag (just click), you will add a SingleCrystalPeak (appearing in a new TableWorkspace).

Picking a Tube¶

The Tube selection tool is useful for tube instruments. When it’s on the mini-plot displays the integrated data in the whole tube. The integration is done either over the detectors in the tube (Sum option) or over time (Integrate). To switch between the options, right-click on the mini-plot to display the following menu:

Summing over the detectors¶

With the Sum option the mini-plot displays a sum of the counts in all detectors in a tube vs time of flight.

Integrating over the time of flight¶

With the Integrate option the mini-plot displays the counts integrated over time of flight vs detector position in the tube.

Detector positions can be shown as detector IDs, or distance form a tube’s end, or the φ angle. Switch between the units using the mini-plot’s context menu.

Navigate¶

The tool button switches on the navigation mode which is the same as in Render Tab.

Selecting Arbitrary Sets of Detectors¶

The rest of the buttons in the top row are for making complex selections. Buttons are for drawing shapes, is for editing them.

Draw an ellipse¶

1. Click the button.
2. Click and hold the mouse button down to start drawing.
3. Drag to resize.

Edit a shape¶

1. Switch on the editing tool .
2. Click on a shape you would like to edit. The selected shape displays control points as small white rectangles.
3. Drag the control points to resize the shape.
4. To translate the shape click inside its shaded area and drag.

To select multiple shapes draw a rubber band around them.

1. Copy selected shapes using Ctrl+C. Then paste them as much as you like using Ctrl+V.

The selected shapes are indicated by drawing a bounding box around each of them.

Only translation is possible for a multiple selection.