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Examples of Methods
Interactive toolbar design
Design of complex interactive dialog boxes
Design of simple interactive dialog boxes
Waveform analysis and display techniques
Save and load variables with text files
Nested toolbars
Sequencer control example
On-line sampling and analysis skeleton
Simple analysis of single files
Manage a list of files for analysis
Process a batch of files similarly new

Interactive toolbar design
PC : spike\scripts\toolmake.s2s Mac : spike2:scripts:toolmake.scr

This utility script lets you design and test a toolbar, then writes the equivalent script. This can be very useful as toolbars are used as the basis of most scripts. Careful use of this script and the dlgmake.s2s script can save a lot of time when writing your own scripts.


Design of complex interactive dialog boxes
PC: dlgdesign.ZIP 202,461

This script allows you to create complex Spike2 script dialogs without writing code. You can add, delete, move and edit dialog items interactively by pressing toolbar buttons and using keyboard shortcuts. You can create dialogs with up to 20 user-defined buttons, up to 40 items of other types and up to 200 text prompts. When you have finished designing your dialog, the script prints out the required code so that you can copy and paste it into your script.

This script requires Spike2 version 5 or higher.


Design of simple interactive dialog boxes
PC : spike\scripts\dlgmake.s2s Mac : spike2:scripts:dlgmake.scr

This script is a utility that writes a script to generate simple dialogs. It illustrates the use of the toolbar for selecting options and can add dialog fields of any type. It also gives examples of creating complex dialogs with user-defined positions of dialog elements.


Waveform analysis and display techniques
PC : spike\scripts\automeas.s2s Mac : spike2:scripts:automeas.scr

This script shows how to use a memory channel to mark peaks and troughs in a data channel and how to make measurements and write results to the log window. It also demonstrates custom cursor labels and advanced toolbar use.


Save and load variables with text files
PC : restvar.zip 4,132 Mac : restvar.sit 5,738

This script illustrates the use of external text files in Spike2 to save and restore the values of script variables. When the script is terminated, a text file is created holding the value of the script variables. When you run the script again (possibly switching off your machine in-between), the variable values are loaded back into the script so it is as if you had not left.


Nested toolbars
PC : nesttool.zip 1,885 Mac : nesttool.sit 3,261

This is an example of a script using nested toolbars. It is designed for people who are already writing scripts and wish to be able to call one toolbar from another. It is a skeletal script with very little functionality, but serves as a good demonstration of the techniques involved.

This script has a main toolbar which can call another toolbar which, in turn, can call another one. Then, as you leave each toolbar, the script returns to the one which called it.


Sequencer control example
PC: autodac.zip 1,760

An example of running a sequenceer from a Spike2 script, including the use of sequencer variables. It requires that the sequencer file autopump.pls is placed in the Spike2\sequence directory. To see the effect, you should set up a sampling configuration with two waveform channels and connect DAC outputs 0 and 1 to ADC inputs 0 and 1.


On-line sampling and analysis skeleton
PC: onskel.zip 1,434 Mac: onskel.sit 1,962

This is an empty script that doesn't do anything much, but is a framework upon which you can build your own script for online analysis. It provides controls for the sampling via a toolbar plus a customisable idle function to carry out analysis.


Simple analysis of single files
PC: skel2.zip 963 Mac: skel2.sit 1,182

This is an empty script that doesn't do anything much, but is a framework upon which you can build your own script. It provides a loop that repeatedly opens a single data file for analysis until the user stops.


Manage a list of files for analysis
PC: skeleton.zip 1,866 Mac: skeleton.sit 2,535

This is an empty script that doesn't do anything much, but is a framework upon which you can build your own script. It provides handling of a list of open data files including opening more files, plus selection of a file for analysis.


Process a batch of files similarly
PC: BatchProcess.zip 905

This is a skeleton script that can be easily modified to do the same thing to all smr files (or a subset of smr files) in a selected directory - for example setting up active cursors.


Some of these scripts have come from users rather than the CED team. If you have a script that you would like to offer to fellow users via this page, please tell Simon Gray. We provide some scripts for Signal too.

These scripts are stored as WinZip files, myscript.zip, except where they are shown as spike\scripts\myscript.s2s. Those latter files were installed with Spike2 and spike stands for the directory in which you installed Spike2. See the summaries by clicking on the description line, below. Then you can down-load them by clicking on the filename; please check the size received.
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