Bolide Interface Description
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1. Other and Surface of Dialog for TSurf component Tab Sheet Surfaces This Tab sheet Fig 2 6 is intended for changing the properties of chosen surface On the top left corner the list of 3 D plot surfaces is presented User must choose from the list the surface to be processed Number of the surfaces is displayed in the window Count it can be changed and the style of representation will be displayed line type and marker style On the right there is a panel with properties of curve is located Here user can change the line style for the surface net standard kit of Windows line styles and put the value for the line width The same choice can be made for the marker style and size also the standard kit of Windows marker types The colour of the line and marker are the same and can be set clicking the button Color on the bottom of the Tab sheet 14 BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 Five checkboxes under are responsible for the curve representation Absolute if checked makes all the points with absolute value within the surface all the values are turned to positive Land type of 3 D plot representation either isometric view or landscape like view Fill if checked then polygons between the surface nodes will be filled with specified color palette Visible if checked the surface is visible on the plot 1f not checked the surface is hidden Autoload if checked th2. be periodically redrawn by Bolide interface per System Timer event Tab Sheet Values This Tab sheet Fig 2 7 1s intended for listing the surface data values First column of the table represents abscissa first row of the table represents ordinate values and the table itself contains the Z coordinate values corresponded to the X and Y values which are used for the surface plotting User can monitor the precise values of the points This array of surface data table lake format is saved and kept in the specified file sur see the Tab Sheet Curves This file can be used after by any Windows not only application for analyzing the data and drawing necessary 3 D plots 1 S5urface Surface ajx Aris Grids Other Surfaces Values Cross 1 5urface Surface x Asis Brids Other Surfaces Values Cross 24079295E 8 4 240409E 6 1 110407 E 6 1 320455E 6 3 46147 4E 7 6 9709338E 7 2 3072r 32E 0 1 6468929E 7 1 2061 704E 6 1 1331 342E 6 5 4671259E 7 6 4827099E 7 Cross f Horizontal E Momenturn Line Humber o E Cross WYalue Oo Time Rate 1 5 0 0001 1E 7 Momentum Spread Integral BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 Fig 2 7 Tab sheet Values and Cross of Dialog for TSurf component Tab Sheet Cross This Tab sheet Fig 2 7 is intended for the analyzing the 3 D plot Here is the option for slicing the
3. default open betacool war a _ setup dialog window of the interface program i dialog window for elaboration and editing of exterior wl _ redraw all graphics Om restart calculation with new parameters e start calculation process a pause calculation process OD restart with changed parameters If some changes of parameters in input file via interface during calculation were made by user then program will reread initial file and will continue calculation with new parameters OF stop calculation To stop the program with correct OS memory cleaning we advise to use this item In this case a special file marker will be created in the current directory and as soon as program will find it then it immediately will shutdown with correct saving all the calculated results DB Smirnov betacool sis18 bld oj x File Beam Effects ECOOL Ring Task cH ag l s wm i oD Fig 1 1 Main window of the BOLIDE interface for BETACOOL program 1 1 Open Opens a new input file using the standard MS Windows dialog The default name and default filename extension are defined in Options dialog This filename can be used as input for physical program when it will be executed from the BOLIDE interface 1 2 Save Saves the current input file If in Options dialog the checkbox Auto Save Input File is chosen the saving of input file is produced automatically when user load the new input file or exit the bolide exe If user executes
4. has 5 TabSheets Axis Grids Other Curves Values Fig 2 2 Every action on editing or changing can be approved and saved by clicking the button Accept or cancelled by clicking the button Cancel BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 Some preface words about managing the Properties Dialog It has standard elements of editing edit windows check boxes lists etc Besides it has specially developed visual components for numbers editing TCounter they are the part of edit windows There are three ways to manage the numbers increments decrements with big arrows near by the edit window let user to change number by two every time or if the logarithmic scale is ON then by one order At the same time there is a control arrows on the right side of the edit window they let user to increase decrease the number by unit in the first mode The second mode can be switched on by right mouse click over this element and then it rotates and works like a by one order increment decrement Axis Grids Other Curves Values AMIE Grids Other Curves Values Y aRi axis 1 Major style and width Tick Humber zolid jo Color Minor style and width zolid fo Color W Major W Minor AIS Tick Number J Major hi Minor Redraw grids Cancel Fig 2 2 Tab sheet Axis and Grids of Dialog for TGraf component Double click over the plot field calls th
5. surface is developed Here is a 2 D plot intended for this purpose is located In the ComboBox Cross On user can change the plane for cross section either on abscissa or ordinate Here is the choice of plane is offered if axis have captions then it is easier to make a choice Under this ComboBox the index number of the cross section can be chosen Line number number of lines is equal to the size of the surface this value is set in Tab Sheet Surfaces X or Y User can list in on line mode all the cross sections of specified surface Informative window Cross value shows the value of cross section of drawn curve with the vertical axis CheckBox Integral is intended to show the integral cross section of the surface if checked Parameters of this 2 D plot can be edited or changed if user calls a TGraf Properties Dialog with right button mouse click 3 Format of the input file Input file has the name bolide bld on default BOLIDE interface can load any text file which is written in the specified format Input file can include both numerical values and string constants Separators are the tabulator symbol or any number more than one of spaces by default User can add more separators in Separators edit window of Options dialog The same input file is used for physical program For visualizing the values and strings from the input file the following scheme is used Components of first group TForm TPanel TRadioGroup
6. BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 BOLIDE Interface INTRODUCTION The development of a well controlled interface for physical programs is quite complicated task The interface program code is usually larger than the physical one and needs a lot of time for elaboration The idea that an interface program is elaborated and compiled independently on a physical code is realized in BOLIDE interface Interface program BOLIDE Builder Object Library amp Interface Development Environment was elaborated with Borland C Builder 4 compiler This program includes necessary elements of the Visual Components Library VCL from the Builder standard kit The following new components were written for the realization of this interface scheme 2D and 3D graphics counter window editor of external text files executing of external applications User can change the exterior of the BOLIDE program and save it without recompiling of source code The physical program can be compiled for different operation systems and can be used without interface BOLIDE interface doesn t need to be recompiled user just executes program and makes changes in accordance with the physical program BOLIDE can be used with other applications with arbitrary language which have not good interface and use text input and output files BOLIDE interface package consists of the executable program bolide exe binary dfm files which include information a
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8. TGoupBox TTabSheet have Row parameter which corresponds to the line number in input file In second group TLabel LEAL Gb LORE CK BOX TRadioButton TCOMDOBOX TCOUNnNCEr TBrowse parameter Col defines the number in the line These parameters should have the positive value otherwise component doesn t appear in the input file If Constructor dialog is opened and the mouse is currently moving over the component then user can check the pair of Row and Col parameters TSurf TGraf components do not correspond to the input file and have own files for saving the plot parameters bolide grf bolide srf These components should have the different values of Tag parameter For on line plot drawing user can load graphic file in the Dialog panel of the plot right mouse click on TSurf or TGraf component and set Autoload checkbox Reading and redrawing of plots occur on the timer events If Autoload checkbox isn t set then user can redraw all graphics with using of Redraw button in Main window 16
9. ame of TSurf and its Tag number can be changed via Constructor This dialog window has a very comfortable and fulfilled interface for editing and changing TSurf parameters It has 6 TabSheets Axis Grids Other Surfaces Values Cross Every action on editing or changing can be approved and saved by clicking the button Accept or cancelled by clicking the button Cancel 12 BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 Some preface words about managing the Properties Dialog It has standard elements of editing edit windows check boxes lists etc Besides it has specially developed visual components for numbers editing TCounter they are the part of edit windows There three ways to manage the numbers increments decrements with big arrows near by the edit window let user to change number by two every time or if the logarithmic scale is ON then by one order At the same time there is a control arrows on the right side of the edit window they let user to increase decrease the number by unit in the first mode The second mode can be switched on by right mouse click over this element and then it rotates and works like a by one order increment decrement Tab Sheet Axis The panel Fig 2 5 is divided into three parts one is for the ordinate axis Y axis the second one is for abscissa X axis and the third is for the vertical axis Z Axis All axis s have the following similar properties wh
10. ation or editing of the interior do click the TForm button New window will be created Choose any component and click on window User can change the position and size of any component holding the left mouse button and Ctrl or Shift keys on the keyboards while moving the mouse If Snap to grid is checked the position and size will be change in accordance with value of editor window on Components panel User can change parameter of active component in the Property panel Component becomes active if one clicks mouse on the component or chooses it in the Inspector list Inspector panel includes the list of components and five buttons Captions of TForm components type of another components and Row Col or Tag properties are shown in the Inspector list Buttons are used for following functions save the interior of total project delete the active component restore deleted component change color of component change font of component Each window TForm componet is saved in the specified file with name mask bolideNN dfm Number NN corresponds to Row parameter of the window User needs to check the TForm Row parameters They have to be different After saving the interior on disk user can not restore deleted components 1 7 Component properties list In order to clarify structure and principles of interface work the property tag in current version of BOLIDE is used only to identify TSurf TGraf components which are not included into the inpu
11. bout the exterior The following text files are used for this interface scheme e input file of the physical program e output graphic files of the physical program e desktop file for the interface program e settings of graphics for the interface program For distribution user should have only executable file bolide exe Binary dfm files and all text files will be generated automatically by the program Interface program bolide exe is the executable module under MS Windows operation system The timer is automatically running while the program is executed On the timer event the main interface operations are produced loading and saving of files redrawing of plots etc Using the BOLIDE interface user can edit initial parameters of physical program execute it and provide the information exchange between interface and physical code in real time draw output graphic files of the physical program BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 1 Main Window Main window manages the interface operation and has global menu and buttons which duplicate actions from the Files menu The bar title indicates the name of input file The Files menu includes the following items Fig 1 1 Main window has the following buttons for working with interface lar _ open the input file with using Windows Open dialog lel _ save input file EA _ calculator tool periodic table of chemical elements text editor by
12. e new window with the plot it is comfortable for monitoring the plot evolution in larger scale Tab Sheet Axis The panel Fig 2 2 is divided in two parts one is for the ordinate axis Y axis another one is for abscissa X axis Both axis s have the following properties which can be edited maximum and minimum values on the axis the number of displayed digits the caption of axis the type of scaling decimal or logarithmic Tab Sheet Grids The panel Fig 2 2 1s also divided in two parts one is for the ordinate axis axis 1 on the top another one is for the abscissa axis 0 on the bottom User can change number of ticks and grids major and minor to be drawn Visualizing of major and minor grids can be switched on off by special checkboxes located opposite the tick number edit windows Also there is a possibility to control the style of lines to draw the corresponded grids its colour and the width Button Color calls the standard Windows Colour Dialog Under the panel with grids properties a checkbox Redraw grids is located this is a special tool which allows to redraw the axis and grids after plot drawing completion sometimes plots can be drawn over the grids if too much of them and it is not comfortable then to analyze the plot with lack of grids Tab Sheet Other This Tab Sheet Fig 2 3 1s responsible for the appearance of the plot Edit window Legend remains a space with
13. e surface is constantly uploading and renewed from the specified file with data sur The edit window under is a path to file with surface data sur The path can be manually written in this edit window or can be chosen using the standard Windows Open File Dialog This dialog can be opened with Load button on this Tab sheet At the same way any surface can be saved to specified or newly created file The procedure is similar to any Windows application one User must click the Save button and specify the filename for the surface to be saved To reset the surface data user must click the Reset button The situation can occur when user had specified in the program code the filename and path for the surface to be saved but during the interface operation surface doesn t appear on the screen It 1s always in normal way when the first time curve is visualized Here user must call the TSurf properties Dialog and in current Tab Sheet Surfaces preliminary having chosen the surface with the Load button point the file with surface data and after to check the autoload checkbox Also there are three edit windows ale placed on the current Tab Sheet X and Y specify the size of the surface number of point to keep in both planes Then bigger this value then more intensive memory usage is needed for the operation and correspondingly it will slow the calculation speed Redraw specifies the surface size number of points to
14. e top left corner TTabSheet components can be placed in one frame TRadioGroup is the receptacle for radio buttons Caption defines the title in the top left corner Columns number of columns for radio buttons ItemCount is number of radio buttons Item O are titles of radio buttons The number of the chosen radio button is saved to the input file TCheckBox has Caption property which defines the title of component The state is saved to the input file TRadioButton differs from the TCheckBox in such a way that user can choose only one TRadioButton on the same window panel group box tab sheet The state is saved to the input file TComboBox is the dropdown list ItemCount is number of items Item 0 are titles of items The number of chosen item is saved to the input file TLabel has Caption property which defines the title Caption value is saved to the input file TEdit has Text property which defines the text in editor window ReadOnly property forbids the changing of text TEdit can be used both for numerical value and text editing Text value is saved to the input file TCounter has Text property which defines the text in editor window Digits number of digits for value presentation Counter property defines two state of TCounter If Counter is set to the true then the using of lt gt button leads to the increment or the decrement of Text property If Counter is set to false then the letter in Te
15. ention extension of the input file User can type any parameters and combinations with filename of input file Filter the file mask which are used in Open dialog a ba when user press Find button Text before separator mask appears in the dialog after follows the file TBrowee 0 z 140 208 160 2U betacool exe ta rates Programsl EE COM j FullPath falze h Fig 2 1 Properties of TBrowse component As a result the DOS window application will be started by the following command string C BETACOOL BETACOOL EXE Betacool bld rates Property FullPath is equal to false it means that the input file b1d must be placed in the same folder as the executable file In this example the Property Co1 is equal to zero it means that the executable file name is not saved in the input file 2 3 TGraf Visual component TGraf can be taken from the visual component constructor and put on any TPanel of necessary arbitrary TForm The special TGraf Properties Dialog can be called by right mouse clicking on the TGraf component Automatically this dialog has a caption with the name of chosen TGraf its Tag number and if this TGraf contains several curves name of the curve by default the first curve The name of TGraf and its Tag number can be changed via Constructor This dialog window has a very comfortable and fulfilled interface for editing and changing TGraf parameters It
16. face Main window Fig 1 1 permits to avoid this disadvantage If this button is pushed the interface generates and saves in the current folder the file Bolide stp When the executable program saves the results of calculations on hard disk it checks existence of the Bolide stp file and if it exists the program removes this file and stops the calculations During the calculation process the executable program saves the results into the disk periodically after given period of time When the physical program works in parallel with interface program the last one reads the results from the output files by signals of timer If occasionally when the interface tries to open the output file this file is used by the physical program the interface looses the corresponding curve and will not to redraw it in the future To refresh such a loosed curve user has to push button Redraw of the interface 1 9 Warning window BOLIDE interface has warning window Fig 1 7 which automatically appears in case of any error Usually these errors don t influence on the physical program For example warning windows appears when user tries to load non existing file chooses bad parameters for graphics inputs bad value in edit window etc User can close warning window with the mouse double click The information in the window will be deleted and warning window will appear in the case of new errors only Number of warning in the same time is defined in the Opt
17. ich can be edited maximum and minimum values on the axis the number of displayed digits the caption of axis the type of scaling decimal or logarithmic Tab Sheet Grids The panel Fig 2 5 is also divided into three parts one is for the vertical axis axis 2 on the top another one is for the abscissa axis 0 in the middle and the 3 is for the ordinate axis axis 1 on the bottom of the panel User can change number of ticks and grids major and minor to be drawn Visualizing of major and minor grids can be switched on off by special checkboxes located opposite the tick number edit windows Also there is a possibility to control the style of lines to draw the corresponded grids its colour and the width Button Color calls the standard Windows Colour Dialog Under the panel with grids properties a checkbox Redraw grids is located this is a special tool which allows to redraw the axis and grids after plot drawing completion sometimes plots can be drawn over the grids if too much of them and it 1s not comfortable then to analyze the plot with lack of grids 21 5urface Surface x Axis Grids Other Surfaces Values Crass Anis Grids Other Surfaces Values Cross AxIs W Major 2 5 I Minor 2 H aris I Major 2 Minor style and width V Minor 2 zolid axis 1 fh Minor 2 Redraw grids Major style and width zolid jo Color Ma
18. ions dialog 1 BOLIDE Warnings I O x TGraf has masimum of asis egual or less minimum Graph 5 Fig 1 7 BOLIDE Warning windows 2 Visual Components All visual components have properties Row Col or Tag which correspond to positions in the input file Properties Left Top Width and Height are used for defining of position and size The property Row of components TForm TPanel TGroupBox TTabSheet define the line number in the input file The property Col of components TRadioGroup TCheckBox BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 TRadioButton TComboBox TLabel TEdit TCounter TBrowse define the position number in the line of input file 2 1 Properties of the components TForm has property Caption which defines the window title and menu in Main Window The separator I divides the names of the menu item and the submenu item which corresponds to this window If separator l is absent the menu items corresponds to window and no submenu items Menu and submenu items of Main Window are automatically contracted using the Caption property of TForm components TPanel has Caption property which is placed in the center of panel BevelWidth defines the width of bevel Align has several values None Top Bottom Left Right and Client which define the panel position relatively to the parent component TGroupBox has one difference only in comparison with TPanel component that Caption 1s placed in th
19. kground colour for the plot representation Filling point color standard Windows Colour Dialog appears to change in legend the filling colour for the markers of chosen surface Graphic font standard Windows Font Dialog appears to change the type and style of font which is used in plot appearance Copy to clipboard useful option allows to copy the plot to the Windows clipboard after it can be pasted in any application as a bitmap New window opens a separate screen size window with plot the comfortable way to analyze the plot Also this window can be called by double click over the plot field Another comfortable option is foreseen in Bolide interface on the panel Axis Rotation three specially developed tools are located to have a possibility for isometric rotation of 3 D plot This rotation 1s available in three planes frontal profile and horizontal Anis Grida Other Surfaces Values Cross Anis lands Other Surfaces Values Cross O Line style Width E Count nul Surtaced Asis Flotatio Background color Front 4 F Profile Filli int col i i iling point color Aela Point style Size rui 2 Graphic Font eee Fille Absolute F Land M Fill f Visible F AutoLoad OpY 10 Lipooal ie Black l po o E C Program Files xCoolFFtr sur Mewwindow Color Reset fso H z ao v hw 3D View Save Load fioo Redraw cone Fig 2 6 Tab sheet
20. n be called by double click over the plot field Avis Gride Other Curves Values Asis Brids Other Curves Values Line style Width hz Legend Background color fi Count jsoid co Show Curve Values Filling point color Curved saint aulad SE Keep Image on Redraw Graphic Font om fee I circle 2 om Copy To Clipboard Graphic Caption __NewWindow Color Reset a ee lt a Size Save Load za Redraw abi visible autoload Cancel Fig 2 3 Tab sheet Other and Curves of Dialog for TGraf component Tab Sheet Curves This Tab sheet Fig 2 3 is intended for changing the properties of chosen curve On the top left corner the list of plot curves is presented User must choose from the list the curve to be processed Number of the curves is introduced in the window Count it can be changed and the style of representation will be displayed line type and marker style On the right there is a panel with properties of curve is located Here user can change the line style for the curve standard kit of Windows line styles and put the value for the line width The same choice can be made for the marker style and size also the standard kit of Windows marker types The colour of the line and marker are the same and can be set clicking the button Color on the bottom of the Tab sheet Three checkboxes under are responsible for the curve representation abs if checked make
21. ns BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 d TT EE xj W Auto Load Input File File Name Extention Separate Graphic File Mames HESR bld J bld Warning File Name and Masimum Size kB W Auto Save Desktop Betacool war au 100 Open Dialog Description Separators Stop Drawing BOLIDE s File 2 Redraw Timer Interval zec W Auto Save Input File Open Dialog on Run Maximum Warming Humber m me Fig 1 5 Options Windows m Options dialog Fig 1 5 has setting of the interface program Most of them are loaded and saved in the file bolide top which is automatically generated by the program Options dialog includes the following setting Preferences Auto Load Input File load file on timer event if data of input file was changed Auto Save Input File save file on exit Auto Save Desktop save desktop on exit Stop Drawing stop drawing graphics but all another controls remains under operation Descriptions File Name default file which is automatically loaded on execute Extension file extension which appears in Open dialog by default Warning File Name and Maximum Size kB file name for BOLIDE warning and limit in kB on its size Open Dialog Description descriptions which appears in Open dialog Separators letters which are used as separators of values in input file More Separate Graphic File Names save load graphic setting files wi
22. s all the points with absolute value within the curve visible if checked the curve is visible on the plot if not checked the curve is hidden autoload if checked the curve is constantly uploading and renewed from the file with data The edit window under is a path to file with curve data cur The path can be manually written in this edit window or can be chosen with standard Windows Open File Dialog This dialog can be called with Load button on this Tab sheet At the same way any curve can be saved to specified or newly created file The procedure is similar to any Windows application one User must 11 BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 click the Save button and specify the filename for the curve to be saved To reset the curve data user must click the Reset button The situation can occur when user had specified in the program code the filename and path for the curve to be saved but during the interface operation curve doesn t appear on the screen It is always in normal way when the first time curve is visualized Here user must call the TGraph properties Dialog and in current Tab Sheet Curve preliminary having chosen the curve with the Load button point the file with curve data and after to check the autoload checkbox Also there are two edit windows ale placed on the current Tab Sheet Size specifies the size of the curve number of point to keep Then bigger thi
23. s value then more intensive memory usage is needed for the operation and correspondingly it will slow the calculation speed Redraw specifies the curve size number of points to be periodically redrawn by BOLIDE interface per one event of System Timer Tab Sheet Values This Tab sheet Fig 2 4 is intended for listing the curve data values Two columns represent correspondingly abscissa and ordinate values which are used for the curve plotting Here all the curve values are listed accordingly to the curve size And user can monitor the precise values of the points This array of curve data in two column format is saved in the specified file cur see the Tab Sheet Curves This file can be used after by any Windows not only application for analyzing the data and drawing necessary plots 5 Graph Ex 2 x Asis Brids Other Curves Values 1 531556E 10 1 531584E 10 1 531582E 10 1 531592E 10 1 53155E 10 1 531585E 10 1 531586E 10 Fig 2 4 Tab sheet Values of Dialog for TGraf component 2 4 TSurf Visual component TSurf can be taken from the visual component constructor and put on any TPanel of necessary arbitrary TForm The special TSurf Properties Dialog can be called by right mouse clicking on the TSurf component Automatically this dialog has a caption with the name of chosen TSurf its Tag number and 1f this TSurf contains several surfaces name of the surface by default the first curve The n
24. specified width on the right hand of the plot for the legend if the number is not a zero The curve caption will be shown If the checkbox Show curve values is checked then the numerical value of the last point of the curve will be displayed on the legend instead of the 10 BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 curve caption If the checkbox Keep Image on Redraw is checked then the plot will be constantly redrawn without loosing the values which are out of the curve size It means that new points will be added to the plot without loosing the first ones when the size of the curve is exceeded Edit window Graphic caption here the caption can be typed which will be displayed on the top of the plot The following buttons are intended for the plot properties control Background color standard Windows Colour Dialog appears to change the background colour for the plot representation Filling point color standard Windows Colour Dialog appears to change in legend the filling colour for the markers of chosen curve Graphic font standard Windows Font Dialog appears to change the type and style of font which is used in plot appearance Copy to clipboard useful option allows to copy the plot to the Windows clipboard after it can be pasted in any application as a bitmap New window opens a separate screen size window with plot the comfortable way to analyze the plot Also this window ca
25. t file for physical code For the components TForm TPanel TTabSheet the parameter Row is used its value corresponds to the line number in an input file For the second group of components TLabel TRadioGro ou p TGoupBox TEdit TCHECKBOX 6 BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 TRadioButton TComboBox TCounter TBrowse the parameter Col is used its value corresponds to the position number in the line of an input file If the Col parameter is equal to zero the corresponding component is not included into output file Input file can include both types of data numbers or strings and using the non zero Col parameter value for TLabel and TBrowse components user can save in the input file comments to the numerical parameters or input file name for loading additional parameters for the physical program for instance name of the MAD file When the mouse pointer is over this field the hint Row Col appears 1 8 Termination of the calculation process menu item Redraw Main algorithm of BETACOOL program provides the calculation of the beam parameter time dependencies from zero moment to infinity The calculations can be terminated by Windows operation system via closing the program window In this case part of memory used by the program is not returned to the system and after a few runs of calculation one needs to reboot the system Usage of the round crossed button in the right bottom corner of the inter
26. th same name to input file Open Dialog on Run load Open dialog on execute of bolide exe program Maximum Warning Number maximum number of messages in Warning window Redraw Timer Interval s interval of timer events in seconds 1 6 Constructor Constructor Fig 1 6 is the set of instruments for the elaboration and editing of the interface interior It consists of tree panels Components panel of VCL for creating new components Property dialog for editing component properties Inspector total list of visual components in the current project BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 x iN F EH ECOOL Friction force k Ih 1 H Effects Target 36 H Ring Parameters 4 on eS Hw Effects IBS 42 Elon Task Rates 5 Sk e B a TPanel 32 nt TLabel 0 A abl aL eo TLabel 0 coy TLabel 0 E W Snap to grid Client Fig 1 6 Constructor windows Components panel includes two groups of components First group TForm TPanel TRadioGroup TGoupBox TTabSheet is the components which can have another components The second group TLabel TEdit TCheckBox TRadioButton TComboBox TSurf TGraf TCounter TBrowse is used for editing and drawing of information which is load and saved to text files Those components are derived from the standard VCL set of C Builder Components TSurf TGraf TCounter TBrowse were elaborated specially for BOLIDE interface For elabor
27. the external physical program the input file is always saved 1 3 Save as BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 Saves the input file with different name If user doesn t input point in the filename the default extension is added to the saved filename The menu items Calculator Periodic table and Editor give user additional service in work with interface and input or output files Programming Calculator Fig 1 2 can be used for data preparation for other windows of the program and provides data exchange via system buffer using standard copy past operations The Periodic table menu item opens the window of Mendeleev s periodic table Fig 1 3 containing main parameters of chemical elements Menu item Editor opens inner text editor Fig 1 4 which indicates column and row of the cursor position For instance in BETACOOL program it is used for preparation the data for export of MAD file and for editing of file containing information about ion ring optic structure This text editor is used also by component TBrowse to open non executable file The window with file of BOLIDE messages Betacool war is also can be opened from the menu Unit Calculator lt smirnova jinr ru gt Ioj x Digits Operations Constants Back ESEZ SAES EA EAE ce SaaS EJEA ES FIED ra Fig 1 2 Calculator Window BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 MENDELEE s PERIODIC TABLE 5 Op Li
28. ule gt MinMax gt 5 Dig fo n Cancel Fig 2 5 Tab sheet Axis and Grids of Dialog for TSurf component Tab Sheet Other This Tab Sheet Fig 2 6 is responsible for the appearance of the 3 D plot Edit window Land Legend remains a space with specified width value on the right hand of the 3 D plot for the legend if the number is not a zero The surface caption will be shown This option can be used if the landscape like representation is chosen for the surface 13 BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 Here also a choice of land filling Filled is foreseen either color or black amp white If the color filling is chosen then different layers will be drawn accordingly to the color palette chosen then different layers will be drawn accordingly to the greyscale palette Litt ae increasing from the white to the black range Edit window 3 D plot caption here the caption for the surface can be typed which will be displayed on the top of the plot Here is the checkbox 3D View is located It lets the user to choose the type of the 3D plot representation if it is checked then surface will be plotted as usual 3 D isometric projection If not checked then plot will be presented as landscape like layers The following buttons are intended for the 3 D plot properties control Background color standard Windows Colour Dialog appears to change the bac
29. xt property is changed to value 0123456789 E Use right mouse button for rotation of lt gt button In this case the lt gt button can be used for adding or removing letters in Text property Text value is saved to input file TCounter can be used for numerical value only Text value is saved to the input file BOLIDE User manual BOLIDE Interface Last update 28 Sep 2007 2 2 Component TBrowse TBrowse component is used to save in input file the names of the files with additional parameters for the physical program and to start executable file of the physical program For instance if user pushes the button Open of the TBrowse component with properties presented in the Fig 2 1 the program which name is presented as the property text and also is indicated in the edit window of the component will be started with current input file its name and path indicated in the upper string of the interface Main Window see Fig 1 1 and with additional parameter rates which is presented in the field of the property Parameters TBrowse has Text property which defines the external filename Parameters property Fig 2 1 defines the parameter line when user presses Open button and executes an external application If the filename in Text property is not executable program then this file will be open with internal Editor full path for the input file filename of the input file without full path and ext
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