That's excellent.
Cheers
Andy
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:17 +0100, Wayne Boucher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've added a way of displaying Hz instead of ppm. So now if you click on
> that x,y position button (at the top to the right of the Strips button)
> then it lets you choose Hz instead of ppm. That will apply whether or not
> the positions are relative or absolute.
>
> If you choose Hz then it will also let you pick the spectrum whose sf will
> be used. The spectra which are listed as possible are the ones that come
> from a slightly complicated algorithm:
>
> use only spectra which are visible and are in the toolbar and have a visible peak list
> if there are none of those:
> use only spectra which are visible and are in the toolbar
> if there are none of those:
> use all the window's spectra
>
> If you turn spectra on and off (and the like) then the spectrum being used
> will change accordingly. This might not be what you want, but I think
> this is probably the desired behaviour.
>
> When the position is in Hz, the location label no longer shows the
> isotopes but instead the sf for x,y. I was going to put the spectrum name
> but Tim convinced me this was a bad idea (since some people have very long
> experiment:spectrum names). The sf is rounded to the nearest interger,
> hopefully that is ok.
>
> Note also, this location dialog is modal (i.e. requires a response), but
> not a very big one in size, so if you accidentally click on something else
> then it can get lost behind and the rest of the GUI won't respond because
> it is waiting for the modal dialog to finish.
>
> Also, it will *not* remember whether you are using Hz or ppm if you save
> the project and then quit and start up Analysis again. That could be
> changed but I'm not sure it's a good idea to remember. (Analysis
> currently doesn't remember whether you were looking at differences in
> position either.)
>
> Anyway, more comments welcome for improvements.
>
> Wayne
>
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Dr Andy Herbert wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > That's wonderful - pretty much exactly what I was looking for, but
> > getting the value in Hz somehow would be much more useful, for the
> > reasons Marco gave. I like the idea of using peaklists as a way of
> > choosing the sf. Another possibility would be to take the first
> > displayed spectrum in the list as the default, but having the ability to
> > choose another one by clicking on the button containing the values. It
> > may also be useful to display which spectrum any Hz value refers to (or
> > at least the sf), to prevent people accidentally checking the wrong
> > values after a long day.
> >
> > Good feature though, thanks.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:05 +0200, Marco Roeben wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Wayne wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've just added something into 2.1.1 which I'd like comments on. In a
> >>> spectrum window (with focus) if you type "d" then it draws a
> >>> (quasi-permanent) crosshair at that location, and then instead of the x, y
> >>> position being reported at the top (in the button to the right of the
> >>> Strips button) you get the difference to that crosshair. If you press "d"
> >>> a second time it moves the crosshair. If you want to get rid of this and
> >>> go back to the normal situation then you type "D".
> >>
> >> Really nice!!!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> And currently it just does ppm. So the question on that front is do we
> >>> need the ability to display Hz even if the window shows ppm. (Of course
> >>> the windows don't have the ability yet to be drawn in Hz, but that's TBD.)
> >>> And if so, what sf should we use to do the conversion? (We could add a
> >>> way of specifying that somehow, the only question is where.)
> >>
> >> Since the common unit for coupling constants or line width is Hz, from my
> >> point of view, it should also be drawn in Hz.
> >>
> >> For the sf you need to know to which spectra the user is referring to when he
> >> wants to know the "delta Hz", right? Why not using the peak list tool bar.
> >> There you can decide if you want to have a "multi list" or not. You could do
> >> something like turning the Hz scale only on if "multi list" is off and
> >> therefore only one specific spectra is chosen.
> >>
> >> Don't know if this, kind of, could solve your problem, but I'm hoping you got
> >> the idea. An advantage would be, that the user is already used to this way of
> >> deciding which spectra to use and have not to remember another configuration
> >> dialog.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> best regards
> >>
> >> Marco
> >>
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University of Edinburgh
West Mains Road
Edinburgh
UK
EH9 3JJ
Tel: +44 (0)131 651 3042 or 650 4792
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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
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