From: Guy Brandenburg 
To: James Lerch 
CC: ATM List ,  atm_free{at}yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: Guy Brandenburg 


That is a very, very impressive piece of work.

Congratulations, and a very sincere thank-you from this ATMer, James.

Of all the various data/knife-edge reduction programs out there, I think
that yours has been by far the easiest to use for a couple of years, and
now it's taken a very large leap in advance.

Guy Brandenburg
Washington, DC

James Lerch wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> Latest Version of FigureXP is ready for consumption.
>
> New features:
>
> #1 Monte Carlo Analysis, with pretty colors, and hopefully a decent
explanation,
> and the option to dump the Raw data to the windows clipboard so you can paste
it
> into Excel or whatever...
>
> #2 Option to turn off Intro and Exit "Nag" screens
>
> #3 Windows File Association Support (Run the program once, and it will ask if
> you want to enable this feature).  This feature means you can now have figure
> files all over your hard drive, and just double click them to launch
FigureXP.
> (Yea, I know, "So What", but dang was that a bugger to implement!)
>
> #4 Slide show like option using the Green arrows at the bottom so you can
> quickly flip back and forth between data sets.
>
> #5 "Fixed" the Printing issue by disabling it all together. 
Instead you have
a
> "Screen Dump" button that will dump the image (plus zone
data) to the Windows
> clipboard so you can paste it into Photoshop (or whatever graphic utility you
> prefer) and print it from there.
>
> #6 Getting good feed back on the Star Test simulation images, so I'm pretty
sure
> that's working (with many assumptions of course!)
>
> Only thing left to fix is the Transverse Aberration Analysis, I'm told it
> doesn't work the way it should (will address in next release!)
>
> Here's the downloads:
>
> http://lerch.no-ip.com/atm/FigureXP_Full.zip   (Full Install 1.7MB)
> http://lerch.no-ip.com/atm/FigureXP.zip   (.exe ONLY 173KB)
>
> Feed back is always welcomed!
>
> Take Care,
> James Lerch
> http://lerch.no-ip.com/atm (My telescope construction,testing, and coating
site)
>
> "Anything that can happen, will happen" -Stephen Pollock from:
> "Particle Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos"
>
>
>

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