Project creation

Welcome screen

If the diffraction manager (giplt_diff_manager) is started within a directory containg an IPLT diffraction project, it displays the project. Otherwise it display a welcome screen allowing the user to either select an existing project or create a project.

Figure 1: Welcome screen

Project creation

The user is guided through the project creation by a wizard. the following parameters have to be provided by the user:

• Path: Directory where all the project data will be stored.
• Raw image format: File format of the recorded raw images.
• Project prefix: Three letter code identifying the project.
• Spacegroup: Crystallographic spacegroup of the recorded crystals.
• A: Length of the first unit cell axis.
• B: Length of the second unit cell axis.
• Gamma: Angle between the unit cell axes in degrees.
• Thickness: Thickness of the unit cell.

Figure 2: Project creation wizard