TEMStrain    

Interface

The program interface is composed of the menus (0), picture (pattern) box (4) and a number of command buttons. Their functions are described below.

0 - Menus. Noteworthy are 

• File / Open project     - open an earlier created project (patterns, settings, marked lines).
•       / Save project as  - save a project (patterns, settings, marked lines).

1 - "Pattern" to load a pattern or a set of patterns (the same as menu File/Open pattern). The arrows are for navigating between patterns of a loaded set.

2 - Name of currently displayed pattern.

3 - Pattern number / number of loaded patterns.

4 - Pattern box. The mouse has the following functions in this box:

• left click and drag to mark a line,
• left click on the line endpoint and drag to correct line position,
• right click on the line endpoint to delete the line,
• right click in the vicinity of a line to display line profile,
• right click in the vicinity of a line and drag to correct line position based on the profile.

5 - Endpoint and Miller indices of a marked line.

6 - Marker of the area used for calculating the line profile and the profile box. There are two profiles in the profile box and two different areas covered by the marker; the corresponding entities have the same color. The edge of the marker indicated by a dot corresponds to the left side of the profile box. 

7 - Hide and display marked lines.

8 - Clear marked lines; deletes all lines for the displayed pattern.

9 - Call the settings tabs; the same effect as menu Settings.

10 - Kinematically simulated line diagram for the current settings.

11 - Fine-tuning box; changes settings based on kinematically simulated line diagram.

12 - Dynamic simulation of the pattern for the current settings.

13 - Automatic line detection. 

14 - Indexing of marked lines.

15 - Save data (settings and locations of lines) for the displayed pattern. 

16 - Determination of strain components, voltage and/or camera lengths.

17 - Inversion of grayscale.