During the 2019 M&M meeting Anette von der Handt gave us a few suggestions that we thought would be useful to implement. They are now available with the current version (update from the Help menu), and include first, a new "string selection" feature in the Analyze! and Automate!  windows. With this feature you can type in a string and the program will auto select all samples that contain the string. For example in the Analyze! window screenshot here, the user has typed "MB2":



We also re-arranged the controls a bit and second, brought out the "Display Samples with Data" checkbox and added another one of these checkboxes in the Plot! window, so one only sees samples that contain data, or at least contains "enabled" (not disabled) data.:



Here's a view of the new Automate! window with some re-arranged controls and the new "string selection" feature:



Maybe the layout in these windows are a bit more pleasing to the eye?

Dave Adams mentions the bubbler fluid here (the trick is getting the right keywords!):

https://probesoftware.com/smf/index.php?topic=1109.msg7380#msg7380

john

Hi John,

Any chance you could remove the popup window 'bad negative zz' and just log the error message. The problem is it opens the window consecutively many times.

When processing the data, do you do anything different with bad negative zz values. Once I've clicked the message box 20-30x the data often seems ok.


Thanks

Ben

Hi Ben,
I modified the matrix correction error messages to just log the error to the log window when it encounters negative values for certain mathematical operations.  You can update to Probe for EPMA v. 12.7.1 whenever you are ready.

Let me know if this works better for you.
john

The dwell time was 40 ms with 15 kv and 40 amps. And a 2 µm pixel size. They were 16 hour maps. I don't have net intensity maps as yet. Does 40 ms sound like that might be the issue?

Hi,

I'm using the polygon extraction tool to extract the quant data from my maps. When I look into the data and start plotting elements up, a cyclic pattern emerges (see attachments). I'm plotting around 40000 points from a single pyroxene grain.
This pattern occurs in all the elements. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?

Thanks.