McStas News http://www.mcstas.org Frontpage headlines May 2nd, 2013: Updated ESS source components for McStas 1.12c and 2.0 http://www.mcstas.org McNews.1 February 1st: Various bugs and workarounds http://www.mcstas.org McNews.10 July 24th, 2011: McStas 1.12c on Mac OS X Lion - hold your horses! http://www.mcstas.org McNews.11 http://www.mcstas.org cNews.2 4. Test instruments set up for estimating the (cold) source brilliance http://www.mcstas.org McNews.3 April 6th, 2013: Ubuntu-based Live-DVD with McStas 2.0, 1.12c and iFit http://www.mcstas.org McNews.4 March 21st, 2013: Supplemental mcdisplay / Python package available http://www.mcstas.org 5 McNews.5 Preferences in mcgui (see graphic below) The allows you to define the commands executed from mcgui for running/compiling (mcrun), visualizing (mcdisplay) or plotting data (mcplot) from your instrument. The naming convention is this one (not completely obvious, sorry): [mcgui-2.0-prefs.png] Unix (Linux / Mac OS): Tool Perl Python mcrun mcrun-2.0 mcrun-2.0-py mcplot mcplot-2.0 mcplot-2.0-py (chaco) or mcplot-2.0-matplotlib (matplotlib) mcdisplay mcdisplay-2.0 mcdisplay-2.0-py Windows: Tool Perl Python mcrun mcrun.pl mcrun-py.bat mcplot mcplot.pl mcplot-chaco.bat (chaco) or mcplot-matplotlib.bat (matplotlib) mcdisplay mcdisplay.pl mcdisplay-py.bat To save your preferences for the next McStas run, use File->Save configuration: * On Unix (Linux / Mac OS) systems to your user's $HOME/.mcstas/ folder * On Windows directly to the system c:\mcstas-2.0\lib\mcstas-tools-2.0\perl folder]]> March 15th, 2013: (Re-)enable syntax highlighting in mcgui-2.0 on Ubuntu http://www.mcstas.org McNews.6 http://www.mcstas.org cNews.7 March 15th, 2013: Component docs are back on website, plus an mcdoc hint http://www.mcstas.org McNews.8 March 12th: Respin of McStas 1.12c dmg for OS X Lion http://www.mcstas.org McNews.9