User Guide

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The Scripts tab shows a list of titles of all of the Python scripts that have been defined for this
configuration. Click on a title to view it. Right click and Edit... to change the script contents.
The scripts used may contain optional markers of the form %(Parameter)s indicating the location of
a parameter to be substituted. The user will be asked to provide parameter values when running the
script. This is done through a dialog which has a list of parameter name and value pairs. The values
entered are substituted into the scripts before it is sent to the reader.
The Tag Commands tab shows a list of titles of commands that have been defined for this configuration.
The Assembly tab allows all the scripts and tag commands that have been defined to be tied together in
the desired way.
The Title field of these items is used in combo boxes to identify the item in question. With the
Immediate Configuration Change the script is sent to the reader in raw format with real newline
characters. The Interrogation command sets the action tuple for the interrogation command.
The Tag Specific Actions table shows 3 columns headed Pre Script, Tag Command & Post Script. This
declares the action list to take with new tag. This list will be compiled and placed in an Actions()
construct.
The Add and Delete buttons allows the user to add and remove configurations, scripts and tag
commands.
The Save button starts disabled and is only enabled when a change is made. When it is clicked, the
configuration details are saved in the configuration file.