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Data Acquisition for Harvard Keutsch Group Formaldehyde Instrument
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User-Defined Scan Interval #5

Closed jdshutter closed 6 years ago

jdshutter commented 6 years ago

Would it be possible to allow the user to define the time interval between each scan (right in the program itself rather than needing to recompile)? At the moment, it's one minute, but it would be nice to sometimes make the interval longer (for instance, five or ten minutes).

nthallen commented 6 years ago

This could be handled in a couple different ways.

  1. We could make it universally configurable, defining the inter-scan period from the command line. This would require creating a TM variable for that setting and displaying and extracting it.
  2. We could provide a few operating modes implementing different interscan periods, say 1, 5 and 10 minutes. This is simpler, since it does not involve additional data.
jdshutter commented 6 years ago

I think No. 2 is a much better option since the operator at most is only going to use one or two modes.

Inter-scan periods of 1, 5, 10 and 30 minutes should be way more than sufficient