EXPGUI: work in progress

Lots of work is taking place on the development version of EXPGUI. These changes will appear in the standard release, sometime soon (August/September??)

New capabilities in EXPGUI

• Interface to distance-angle (DISAGL) parameters*
• Distance soft-contraints [restraints] module*
• Rigid body module (not documented, yet.)*
• Interface to fix atom coordinates*

New capabilities in LIVEPLOT

• Publication quality PDF export (all platforms)
• Pagnification regions: multiply intensity as a function of 2theta, Q,...
• Plot I/sigma(I)
• Edit title
• Improved placement of automatic tick marks (now the default) These changes are intended to make LIVEPLOT more useful for preparing diffraction figures for presentations and publication.

Diagnostics/Error? Recovery

• Blowup detector: EXPGUI warns when a corrupt .EXP file is encountered
• Revert menu: Eases returning to a previous refinement

In addition, significant revisions have been made to the documentation and there have been many smaller bug fixes. I hope more bugs have been fixed than introduced.

bug fixes:

• InstEdit bugs have been addressed and a new menu item makes creating a new file more clear.
• Fixed bug in setting the max 2theta value for CW data (caused by a TOF fix).
• On Windows 7 -- some systems -- EXPGUI fails to expand itself after a run of GENLES, etc. The "Iconify during GSAS" option has been removed on this platform, since that prevents the problem.

Note, items marked with a * are thanks to a large extent to the efforts of Charles Lake of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Thanks to also Vince West who implemented a gnuplot export in CMPR that I ripped off for LIVEPLOT.