McStas ILL Web site trial

[Farhi]

Hy,

I've corrected the bad link. Yes you can announce the site, but I'm not sure yet of its
location (will this stay on the ill/tas group zone ?). Perhaps it's better to wait the
Dec 10th meeting, where I will raise the question.

The number of components is not growing quite fast. The main problem is that physicists
are very bad programmers, and the source code is usually a black box, with no help,
etc...
I think you're right : we should maintain a unique set of components, shared on both web
sites. You told me you know how to update those files (mirror). I never tried this
before. The task might be complicated by the presence of the ILL firewall, and the fact
that I can only FTP to the ill web server (no tty). I've added already the MCDISPLAY
parts in all 'bold' components of the ill_lib page. The help sections are also updated.
Get the components, and see if it suits you.

Also, can McStas search for components inside sub-directories in it's lib path ? This
would enable to sort components by class (sources, monitors, etc)
Thomas Hansen has noticed a McStas limit concerning the number of instrument parameters.
He uses in it's D20 simulation about 20 to 30 input params !! As mcstas did not work
with this, he now uses an 'input' file containing the parameters, read from the C
embeded part of the INITIALIZE section.

Cheers. EF.

Kristian Nielsen wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:06:39 +0100
> > From: Farhi <farhi at ill.fr>
>
> > I've been installing a tentative 'McStas at ILL' web site at the URL :
> >
> > < http://www.ill.fr/tas/mcstas/mcstas_ill.html >
>
> I took a quick look and my first comment is WOW! I did not realise that
> you very this active with McStas at the ILL. I added a link from the
> Risø McStas page. I will probably get back later with more in-depth
> comments.
>
> I found a bad link, to Trefs PDF report on the page at
> http://www.ill.fr/tas/mcstas/documentation.html#docs (the bad link is
> "http://www.ill.fr/home/farhi/DIVERS/html/mcstas/instruments/Test3He/3HeMcStas.pdf").
>
> I think this page should be announced on the mailing list. Would you
> like to do it yourself, or shall I?
>
> Thanks for the comments on mcgui, I agree very much and I will
> incorporate them as soon as possible.
>
> I will wait for the MCDISPLAY stuff.
>
>  - Kristian.

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