LaueTools 3.0.51

Distribution of LaueTools Package from gitlab.esrf.fr repository for pip

Welcome to LaueTools's DOCUMENTATION!

Last revision (Sept 2022)

LaueTools information on BM32 beamline website:

https://www.esrf.fr/UsersAndScience/Experiments/CRG/BM32/Microdiffraction

1- Download LaueTools code

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• the very last version of the code running with python3 is now on github (you are also welcome to fork this project):

  https://github.com/BM32ESRF/lauetools

• last (or older releases) with repository on pypi

  https://pypi.org/project/LaueTools/

  if pip is installed:

  .. code-block:: python

   pip install lauetools
  

• Former LaueTools package written for python 2.7 only (up to June 2019) is no longer maintained and can be found on sourceforge:

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/lauetools/version

But it is highly recommended to use python 3 to take benefit from all capabilities

2a- Launch Graphical User Interfaces of LaueTools

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• start Lauetools GUIs from command line :

Normally, in a command window (if environment variables are well set) 3 main GUIs can be launched:

> lauetools   for the main GUI
> peaksearch  for batch Laue pattern peak search processing
> indexrefine   for batch Laue pattern indexing and unit cell (strain) refinement
> buildsummary    to compile all results from indexrefine analysis
> plotmap    to plot 2D map of structural quantities from file built previously
> plotmeshgui   to plot 2D map from counters values in (spec) logfile

To deal with relative import, the package name ‘LaueTools’ must be specified to the python interpreter with -m option as following

if LaueTools is a current subfolder:

- python -m LaueTools.LaueToolsGUI

- python -m LaueTools.GUI.LaueSimulatorGUI

- python -m LaueTools.GUI.PeaksearchGUI

The two last GUIs (LaueSimulatorGUI, PeaksearchGUI) can be accessed by the first main one, LaueToolsGUI

There are additional basic GUIs for batch processing located in FileSeries folder:

- python -m LaueTools.FileSeries.Peak_Search
- python -m LaueTools.FileSeries.Index_Refine
- python -m LaueTools.FileSeries.Build_summary
- python -m LaueTools.FileSeries.Plot_Maps2

• within interactive python (say, ipython -i), GUI can be started thanks to a start() function:

  • In [1] : import LaueTools.LaueToolsGUI as LTGUI

  • In [2] : LTGUI.start()

.. note:: in the LaueTools folder :

- neither > python LaueToolsGUI

- nor in >ipython -i :  > run LaueToolsGUI  will work…

2b- Use LaueTools module as a library

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With pip installation, LaueTools package will be included to python packages. Therefore any module will be callable as the following:

-In [1] : import LaueTools.readmccd as rmccd

-In [2] : rmccd.readCCDimage(‘myimage.tif’)

In jupyter-notebook, it is also simple in the same manner:

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