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BLISS Documentation

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Bliss documentation pages are a compilation of heterogeneous documents on subjects concerning beam line control and data acquisition.

User Guides and Installation Notes

Available user guides and installation notes for our software (sorry, onsite only). Information organized in subjects. A good place to start searching for documentation. Based on MediaWiki 1.6.7

Tutorials

These tutorials are rather very old and will have to be redone. But for the sake of information for the desperate, the original links are conserved.

Talks

Slides of various BLISS talks (all in PDF format ).

SPEC

This is a collection of heterogeneous documents related to SPEC:
SPEC and C-Plot are trademarks of Certified Scientific Software

SPEC (CSS documentation)

SPEC and CPLOT documentation

ESRF SPEC documentation

ESRF Macros: help and downloading.
SPEC commands reference list
The Specfile module
BLISS application documentation
The manual for the SpecFile Library (PDF)

Taco/TANGO

documentation on the ESRF object oriented control system. The newer version of it is now the TANGO sourceforge project.

Graphical Applications

The BLISS FrameWork (on-site only)
The BlissFramework-Core is the core package, containing the GUI editor and the base Python modules. This is our wiki page about it.
Brick documentation
all the graphical components that can be used within the Framework are organised into separated packages under the "Bricks" node. There are already bricks for various devices like motors, shutters or equipments like slits, minidiffractometer, sample changer... Feel free to install only the bricks you need; however it does not use much disk space and you can install everything if you are not sure what you are doing.

Useful links

Python

some documentation on the Python Programming Language.
PyQt4
Qt
is the C++ documentation for the Qt libraries. Include also tutorials and other documents. It is the best reference information for Qt. Even if you are writing Qt interfaces from Python this should be your bible.
There is also some documentation on the Python/Qt (version 3) extension module itself. This document gives some hint about how to convert Qt concepts to the Python language.