Zhaoming,

This conversation should be happening on the Ifeffit Mailing List.  I did not 
notice that last night when I replied to your first email.  Yet another reason 
not to answer email late at night!

I continue to be sceptical of your claims.  I have no problems with the data 
file you sent on either Windows or Linux once I correctly select the columns in 
the column selection dialog.  Once imported, the default values for 
normalization are set as I expect and the data is interactive in the normal 
manner.

Here are some hints about how to provide a useful bug report:
   http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/pods/bugs.pod.html
Please read it carefully.

If there is more to this conversation, please use the mailing list.

B


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 Bruce Ravel  ------------------------------------ bra...@bnl.gov

 National Institute of Standards and Technology
 Synchrotron Science Group at NSLS-II
 Building 535A
 Upton NY, 11973

 Homepage: http://bruceravel.github.io/home
 Software:    https://github.com/bruceravel
 Demeter:     http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter

________________________________
From: ZHANG, Zhaoming [z...@ansto.gov.au]
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 1:00 AM
To: Ravel, Bruce
Subject: RE: [Ifeffit] Importing data with the new version of Athena 
[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi Bruce,
                Sorry, I did have to specify column 4 as energy, 7 as Io and 8 
as It. The new version of Athena does read the .dat file in, but the default 
values for normalization are way wrong, and it doesn’t work by manually change 
them either.
                I’m happy to send you screen shots if necessary. Thanks again 
for your help.
Zhaoming

From: Ravel, Bruce [mailto:bra...@bnl.gov]
Sent: Thursday, 2 April 2015 12:43 PM
To: ZHANG, Zhaoming
Subject: RE: [Ifeffit] Importing data with the new version of Athena 
[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]


Zhaoming,

I'm afraid I am sceptical of your story.  I have no trouble reading this file 
and I don't believe that any change I've made since 0.9.20 would have affected 
this.  Who knows, though.  I'll take a lok on a windows machine when I get into 
work tomorrow morning.

It's a rather awkward file.  The first column is an index, not energy.  That's 
one of my pet peeves -- just a ridiculous way to present the data and kind of 
mean-spirited to the user.  When something is measured in energy, the first 
column should be energy.

That means you have to explicitly select column 2 as the energy.  Column 2 
appears to be in keV, so you need to explicitly set that in the column 
selection dialog.  Because column 1 was not the energy, Athena had no way of 
figuring that out.

I have no idea which columns have data in them.  7 and 8 look rather like I0 
and It.  So you need to explicitly set your data columns, as well.

I've attached a screenshot of the column selection dialog with all those 
settings.

When data are presented as obfuscated as they are in this data file, it is not 
reasonable to expect that Athena will magically know how to disentangle 
everything without your help.  You have to be responsible for knowing which 
columns to combine to turn your raw data into mu(E).

B

--
 Bruce Ravel  ------------------------------------ 
bra...@bnl.gov<mailto:bra...@bnl.gov>

 National Institute of Standards and Technology
 Synchrotron Science Group at NSLS-II
 Building 535A
 Upton NY, 11973

 Homepage: http://bruceravel.github.io/home
 Software:    https://github.com/bruceravel
 Demeter:     http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter
________________________________
From: ZHANG, Zhaoming [z...@ansto.gov.au]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 7:34 PM
To: Ravel, Bruce
Subject: [Ifeffit] Importing data with the new version of Athena 
[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear Bruce,
                I’ve encountered the same problem as Sander Bruun. My data were 
obtained from the Australian Synchrotron. In the past, I could read the .dat 
file (see attached example) directly into Athena. But it doesn’t work with the 
new version (0.9.20), and the beamline scientist doesn’t know why either.
                I would really appreciate if you could let me know what ‘fix’ 
we need! Thanks so much.
Warm regards,
Zhaoming

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