I agree with this idea Michael, and thanks for your comments. Reading
from the database is the best idea since you are checking not only the
detectors but the db itself - which we rely on for calibration. It will
also be very fast. I can model the canvases after my current
timing_vs_run_db.C macro which uses four shapes/colors for
top/bot/left/right TOF pmts and plots a 4x4 canvas for 16 TOF flasher
peaks. I could have 3 or more such canvases per detector group for the
quantities you suggest (T0, MeanADC, Pedestal, ..). I will skip the
normailztion to start if that is OK (we can always modify things). The
only thing is, I have never written a GUI. But there is no time like the
present to learn! (and this will be somewhat interesting ot me) I will
not drag it out forever in the process though - I promise! I will take a
look at VZ's OnlineGUI (unless there is a simpler model out there that
someone can recommend?)
Pete
On Sun, 23 May 2004, Michael Kohl wrote:
> Hi Pete,
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> my suggestion for an online monitor would be:
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> Similar to onlineGUI, it is meaningful to have a panel with buttons to
> switch between detector groups.
> On pushing that button, a "detector window" (e.g. TOF) is showing
> TOF-related information. This could (should) be a plot of quantity versus
> runnumber, e.g. T0, MeanADC, Pedestal, ..., i.e. those which were
> determined once per run, showing the evolution, for let's say the latest
> 500 runs. All of these quantities could be plotted with different colors
> or symbols in the same detector canvas. Since we are only interested in
> changes, the abolute number which is plotted is arbitrary. Thus we could
> either subtract the value of the leftmost datapoint of the plot, or the
> avrage value of the quantity within the 500 runs. We could also think of
> normalizing the deviation from the averag to the average and display the
> percentage. (However I have some objection with this, since "relative"
> changes of calibration constants are less important that rather absolute
> changes.
> All quantities shown should only be read from the database.
> I think most ingredients are already there, just need to be put together.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Michael
>
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> On Sun, 23 May 2004, Peter Karpius wrote:
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> > Hi Michael-
> >
> > I am on shift today and working on getting offsets into the db
> > (almost done except for some problem runs with no electroncs map).
> >
> > Tomorrow I plan to work on this TOF monitor that was mentioned at
> > the last two Wed meetings. What should be the design criteria of this
> > thing? We already have an online monitor that shows hits per TOF and we
> > already have a code that reads the TOF flasher peak from the database and
> > plots it versus run number. What do you think would be the most useful
> > design?
> >
> > Pete
> >
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Nuclear Physics Group
University of New Hampshire
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email: karpiusp@einstein.unh.edu
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