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The simplest way in which you create a macro file is to perform the normal data analysis of one file, but to enter the MACROS / LOG FILE interface before and click on the CREATE MACRO button, and afterwards to return and click on the STOP MACRO button. When you click on the CREATE MACRO button, you will be asked for the name of the macro file to create.
FIT2D will save this macro to an ASCII file. This contains the instructions for the data analysis sequence, but will only run on the file which has just been treated. Using your favourite editor the file name(s) can be found and replaced by ``variable names'' which will be automatically generated by FIT2D.
e.g. A standard basic macro has one input file and one output file, so the input file name would be replaced by the ``variable'' #IN and the output file name by the ``variable'' #OUT.
Having edited the macro it is ready to use with RUN SEQUENCE button.
See Section 8, Page for
further information.
This prompts for the names of the first and last input files
(corresponding to #IN). From these files the changing numerical
part is deduced. The user is prompted for the increment between files.
By default this is 1 (or -1), i.e. every file in the series is treated, but
by entering larger integers every secong, third, etc. file can be used
and the others ignored. The output files (corresponding to #OUT)
are given the same name as the input files except for the file
extension. The user is prompted for the file extension which replaces
that of the input files.
This
will then automatically generate the sequence of file names and run the
macro on each set of input and output files.
It is also possible to define and run macros from the ``KEYBOARD''
interface using the START MACRO, STOP MACRO, and
SEQUENCE commands. This is much more flexible (and complicated): more
than one input and output files are possible, and other variables can
be generated to make macros more versatile.
See Section 29,
Page for further details.
Andy Hammersley