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1// **************************************************************************
2/** @mainpage
3
4@brief FACT++ - The FACT slow control software
5
6@author thomas.bretz@epfl.ch et al.
7<!--@version 1.0-->
8
9<hr width="100%">
10
11@section toc Table of contents
12<table border='1' bgcolor=#FAFAFA width='100%'>
13<tr>
14<td>
15<ul>
16<li> @ref install_sec
17 <ul>
18 <li> @ref rootwarning
19 <li> @ref packages
20 <li> @ref installroot
21 </ul>
22<li> @ref demos
23<li> @ref dimremarks
24<li> @ref addtab
25<li> @ref Documentation
26<li> @ref References
27 <ul>
28 <li> @ref generalref
29 <li> @ref boostref
30 <li> @ref fitsref
31 <li> @ref qtroot
32 </ul>
33<li> @ref availableprograms
34<li> @ref Examples
35</ul>
36</tr>
37</td>
38</table>
39
40@section install_sec Installation
41
42FACT++ can be downloaded from the svn by
43
44\verbatim
45 svn checkout https://fact.isdc.unige.ch/svn/trunk/FACT++ [localdir]
46\endverbatim
47
48it includes a dim version which is automatically compiled.
49
50For compilation use
51
52\verbatim
53 ./configure
54 make
55\endverbatim
56
57Check the \b ./configure options with \b --help. It might look
58confusing, but some features like FITS or QT4 can be switched off,
59if the necessary library is not at hand and the feature is not needed.
60For example, if the GUI is not needed its compilation can be switched
61off by disabling QT4 support with \b --without-qt4.
62
63If you use a custom built root version on your system without QT
64support, but have a distribution packe (e.g. debian package) with
65QT support available, you can give the path to root executables,
66for example, with <B>--with-rootsys=/usr/bin</B>. All other paths
67are extracted from subsequent calls to \b root-config.
68
69Running \b ./configure will take some time. It tries to really check
70carefully that everything needed is available on your system, so that you
71get errors before you start compilation.
72
73If \b ./configure fails and you send a bug report please attach
74the file config.log.
75
76If \b make fails and you send a bug report please attach
77the complete output of <B>make V=1</B>.
78
79\b Reminder: These programs use shared libraries, i.e. whenever you re-compile
80part of the project some of them might be re-compiled as well. As a result
81already running programs might crash unexpectedly! This is \b not a bug.
82
83In principle configure also supports
84
85\verbatim
86 make install
87\endverbatim
88
89which would install the package and the libraries in your system,
90although at the moment this is not recommended
91
92@subsection rootwarning ROOT warnings during compilation
93
94During compilation of the GUI you get some warning from root's TQtWidget.h.
95These warnings are completely harmless and can be ignored. However, it is sometimes
96advicable to get rid of them to get a clean compiler run which makes development
97easier.
98
99Therefore replace
100\verbatim
101inline void resize(const QSize &size) { QPixmap newSize(size); *(QPixmap *)this = newSize; }
102\endverbatim
103by
104\verbatim
105inline void resize(const QSize &sz) { QPixmap newSize(sz); *(QPixmap *)this = newSize; }
106\endverbatim
107in TQtWidget.h
108
109
110@subsection packages Required packages
111
112The following section gives a list of packages which were necessary after
113a fresh Ubuntu 11.04 installation. In addition to all the development
114packages the corresponding package with the library is needed.
115
116<i>Required (configure will fail without them)</i>
117- subversion
118- gcc
119- g++
120- make
121- libreadline6-dev
122- libboost-all-dev
123- libx11-dev (needed for lesstif, qt4, root)
124
125<i>FITS file support (datalogger, event builder)</i>
126- libccfits-dev
127
128<i>MySQL support (command line options, scheduler)</i>
129- libmysqlclient-dev (optional for MySQL support)
130- libmysql++-dev (option for MySQL support)
131
132<i>If you want 'did'</i>
133- lesstif2-dev
134
135<i>To compile the gui</i>
136- libqt4-dev
137- root (see section about root, currently recommended versions 5.18/00b-5.26/00e)
138
139<i>To create your own documentation</i>
140- graphviz
141- doxygen
142- help2man
143
144<i>For developers</i>
145- autoconf
146- autoconf-archive
147- libtool
148- qt4-designer
149
150<i>Some nice to have (FACT++)</i>
151- colorgcc
152- colordiff
153
154<i>Some nice to have (system)</i>
155- fte
156- efte
157- htop
158
159@subsection installroot How to install root 5.26/00 on Ubuntu 11.04 (natty)
160
161- install gpp4.4, gcc4.4, g++4.4 (root does not compile with gcc4.5)
162- make links to hidden X11 libraries:
163<B><pre>
164cd /usr/local
165sudo ln -s x86_64-linux-gnu/libX* .
166</pre></B>
167- in the root source directory
168<B><pre>
169./configure --enable-qt --with-cc=gcc-4.4 --with-cxx=g++-4.4 --with-xrootd-opts=--syslibs=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr/local
170</pre></B>
171- \b make
172- <b>sudo make install</b>
173- pray
174- don't forget to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly before you try to start the fact gui
175
176
177@section demos Current demonstration programs
178
179- \b dserver2: A virtual board (A TCP/IP server). It is sending a
180 "hello" message after accepting a communication and then in 3s
181 intervals the current UTC time. The board can be set to state 1 or back
182 to state 0 (just as a demonstration)
183- \b dclient5: A control program. It accesses two viratual boards (start them
184 with 'dserver2 5000' and 'dserver2 4001') If both boards are connected the START
185 command can be issued to get them to state 'Running'. In this state
186 an asynchronous time stamp can be requested sending the TIME command.
187 to get back from Running to Connected use STOP.
188- \b test3: a dim console which allows to control all dim servers
189 by sending commands via the dim network.
190- Both, \b dclient5 and \b test3 accept the command line options -c0, -c1, -c2
191 to switch between different console types (or no console in the case of
192 \b dclient5). In the console you get help with 'h' and the available
193 command with 'c' You get the avilable command-line options with --help
194
195First start the two dserver2s. Then start a dclient5 (if you want it
196with console use one of the -c options) and a test3 console (with one
197of the console options if you like) you can now control the hardware
198boards with the START, STOP and TIME commands or stop (Ctrl-C) and
199start one of the programs to see what's happening. In the test3 case
200you first have to \e cd to the server to which you want to talk by \b
201DATA_LOGGER. Don't forget to start \b dns if you want to control dclient5
202from test3 via Dim.
203
204@section dimremarks Remarks about Dim usage
205
206To be able to write all received data directly to the FITS files,
207padding has been disabled calling dic_diable_padding() and
208dis_disable_padding(). This is done in our own error handler
209DimErrorRedirecter. Since this should be one of the first
210objects created in any environment it is quite save. However, every
211Dim client or server in our network which does not use the
212DimErrorRedirecter \b must call these two functions as early as
213possible.
214
215<!--
216@section exitcodes Exit Code
217@section newcommand How to add a new command?
218@section description How to add help textes to services and commands?
219-->
220
221@section addtab How to add a new tab in the gui?
222
223Do the following steps in exactly this order:
224- Insert the new page from the context menu of the QTabWidget
225- Copy the QDockWidget from one of the other tabs to the clipboard
226- Paste the copied QDockWidget and add it to the new tab (only the tab should be highlited)
227- Now click on the context menu of the region in the tab (QWidget) and change the layout to grid layout
228
229
230@section Documentation
231
232Each program has an extensive help text (except the examples). This
233help text can be displayed with the \b --help option. For each program
234a man-page is automatically created (from the help-output), which (at
235the moment) can be accessed with <B>man ./program.man</B> (Don't forget
236the ./ before the filename). With <B>make program.html</B> and
237<B>make program.pdf</B> a HTML page and a pdf document can be created
238from the man-page.
239
240With <B>make doxygen-doc</B> the HTML documentation as well as a pdf
241with the whole code documentation can be created.
242
243@section References
244
245@subsection generalref General references
246- <A HREF="http://www.cplusplus.com/reference">The C++ reference</A>
247- <A HREF="http://www.boost.org">boost.org: The boost C++ libraries</A>
248- <A HREF="http://www.highscore.de/cpp/boost/titelseite.html">Boris Sch&auml;ling: Die Boost C++ Bibliotheken</A>
249- <A HREF="http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html">GNU Readline</A>
250- <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses">GNU Ncurses</A>
251- <A HREF="http://dim.web.cern.ch/">Distributed Information Management (DIM)</A>
252- <A HREF="http://dim.web.cern.ch/dim/cpp_doc/DimCpp.html">Distributed Information Management (DIM) - C++ reference</A>
253- <A HREF="http://qt.nokia.com/">Qt homepage</A>
254- <A HREF="http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/">Qt downloads</A>
255
256@subsection boostref Boost references
257- <A HREF="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/libs/bind/bind.html">boost::bind (V1.45.0)</A>
258- <A HREF="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html">boost asio (V1.45.0)</A>
259- <A HREF="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/doc/html/date_time.html">boost date_time (V1.45.0)</A>
260- <A HREF="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/doc/html/program_options.html">boost program_options (V1.45.0)</A>
261- <A HREF="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/libs/filesystem/v3/doc/index.htm">boost filesystem (V1.45.0)</A>
262- <A HREF="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/libs/regex/doc/html/index.html">boost regex (V1.45.0)</A>
263- <A HREF="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/libs/system/doc/index.html">boost system (error codes) (V1.45.0)</A>
264- <A HREF="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/doc/html/thread.html">boost thread (V1.45.0)</A>
265- <A HREF="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/libs/conversion/lexical_cast.htm">boost lexical_cast (V1.45.0)</A>
266
267@subsection fitsref FITS references
268- <A HREF="http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/fits.html">The FITS data format</A>
269- <A HREF="http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/">FITS homepage</A>
270- <A HREF="http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/CCfits/">CCfits - A C++ wrapper to cfitsio</A>
271- <A HREF="http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/ftools/fv/">fv - A very simple viewer to FITS file contents</A>
272
273@subsection qtroot How to integrate root in QT?
274
275- <A HREF="http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/designer-creating-custom-widgets.html">QT4: Creating custom widgets</A>
276- <A HREF="http://root.cern.ch/download/doc/26ROOTandQt.pdf">root: QT integration (pdf)</A>
277
278
279@section availableprograms Available programs
280
281- dns: Dim's domain-name-server (needed for any communication between Dim servers and clients)
282- did: A simple graphical interface to analyse everything in a Dim network
283
284@section Examples
285
286There are a few example programs
287- \b ./argv: Example for usage of the class Configure (command line options, configuration file)
288- \b ./time: Example for the usage of the class Time (time input/output, conversion)
289- \b ./log, \b ./logtime: A simple Dim-Service/-Client combination using MessageDimRX/MessageDimTX
290
291**/
292// **************************************************************************
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