Date: Wed, 7 Sep 94 15:20:36 +1000
Subject: Bug list etc.
From: (Fred Scott)

Hello John

Many thanks for keeping the SX community informed of recent happenings via
your email newsletters. It is particularly appreciated "Down Under" where
news comes very infrequently and almost always is never initiated from
the Paris end.

I have sent my bug list to Andy Davis and have listed it below for your
information. I have found Michelle Outrequin (in Cameca's applications
lab) to be very helpful when contacted directly, but have had almost nil
response when requests for help have been sent via engineers or salesmen.

I note that you are interested in using longer counting times for trace
analyses. I have successfully used Bruce Robinson's trace analysis
program where there is no limit on the counting time, and you can watch the
precision and limit of detection improve during the measurement. It was
originally written for the DEC and has been ported to the Sun. I have also
incorporated it into the SunView menu under QUANTI to make it easier to
use.

Regards
Fred Scott

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|Fred Scott |e-mail: F.Scott@unsw.edu.au|
|Physical Sciences Electron Microscope Unit| |
|School of Materials Science & Engineering |fax 61 2 385 5956 |
|University of New South Wales |phone 61 2 385 4425 (work) |
|Sydney 2052 | 61 2 567 8604 (home) |
|AUSTRALIA | 61 2 597 3243 (home) |
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1. "Update Declare" in File Utility does not work.
The only way to store updated calibration data is to select
"Declare", delete the appropriate element from the declaration, then
Insert or Append the new data. ("Declare", "Show" displays the
latest data stored in stdint.dat, not the data actually used in an
analysis. "Analyse", "Change Conditions", "Show" displays the data
used in an analysis)
This bug is known by Cameca but has not been corrected.

2. File names difficult to read after "Update Declare".
Even though it doesn't work, the display of file names when
attempting to Update Declare is confusing.

3. Wrong dates in calibration data.
Click on "Analyse", select label, "Change Conditions", "Show".
Incorrect dates are displayed in the calibration data.
This bug is known by Cameca.

4. Analysis, Type: Difference only works for Oxygen.
Selecting other elements doesn't work. I can select any element "By
difference" and "Store", but the unanalysed element is actually
stored as O.

5. Last analysis is not stored in .quanti_run or .quanti_point
This has been rated as a low priority bug by Cameca.

6. Comments in X,Y,Z - Stage Scan
When entering a stage scan, there is no problem if the comment is
entered BEFORE the start and stop points are validated. If the
comment is entered or changed AFTER the start point is validated, the
co-ordinates of the start point are changed to an impossible value.
A bug patch has been received for this problem.

7. Length of comments in X,Y,Z - Stage Scan
Various problems arise if the comment contains 24 or more characters.
A bug patch has been received for this problem.

8. Comments in X,Y,Z - Stage Point can cause problems.
No problems occur if no comment is used, but the stage co-ordinates
or the comments are stored incorrectly in xyzpos.dat unless the
following procedure is used exactly:
(a) Click on "X,Y,Z"
(b) Point 1: select label
enter comment for point 1 (optional)
click on "Stage Point"
select Autofocus (optional)
(c) Point 2: move stage to position 2
click on "Add"
change label (optional)
change comment for point 2 (optional)
(d) Point 3: repeat procedure for point 2
(e) Point 4: repeat procedure for point 2
etc

9. Comments in Reports .
When comments are displayed in a Report they appear to be padded out
to 60 characters with spaces and a "-" or "-1" at the end.

10. XYZ co-ordinates not possible in a Report.
No predefined variable is supplied for stage position.

11. Problem printing results after each analysis.
In "Analyse" mode the results of an analysis can be printed after
each point if the spool device is set to /dev/lp or /dev/ttyy01 under
"Options", however I have not found a way to make this permanent.
Regardless of whether the Options are "Stored" or not, the spool
device appears to be reset to /dev/null after logging off and on
again, after quitting Quantiview and re-starting it, or after a
Declare.

12. Extraneous error messages.
"ttysw - TIOCSSIZE: Bad file number" error message often appears on
CONSOLE screen after clicking on Analyse.

13. Blank screen after Qualitative WDS scan.
After a Qualitative WDS scan, selecting an optical image results in a
blank screen. Selecting one of the spectrometer displays and then
selecting the optical image restores the image.
This bug is known by Cameca.


WISH LIST

1. Fix up these bugs.

2. "Beep" after crystals are changed when in "Spectro".

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