Table of Contents
Description.................................................................................................................................1
Software......................................................................................................................................2
Introduction ...............................................................................................................................3
Rules of Syntax ..........................................................................................................................3
Whitespace.................................................................................................................................3
Parameters / Arguments .........................................................................................................3
Verbs ...........................................................................................................................................4
Verbs as Subroutines .........................................................................................................5
Begin and End ....................................................................................................................5
Looping Verbs ....................................................................................................................5
Shift Verbs...........................................................................................................................5
Display Verbs .....................................................................................................................6
Syntax Summary .......................................................................................................................6
Script....................................................................................................................................6
Whitespace..........................................................................................................................6
Function Syntax..................................................................................................................6
Readout / Display .............................................................................................................6
Function Definitions .................................................................................................................7
Example Scripts .......................................................................................................................13
Open the Shutter ..............................................................................................................13
Single Image .....................................................................................................................13
3-Color Sequence .............................................................................................................17
Intermittent Exposure .....................................................................................................18
High-Speed Spectroscopy...............................................................................................19
Error Codes ..............................................................................................................................20
Man Pages ................................................................................................................................21
pl_exp_init_script(101) ....................................................................................................22
pl_exp_setup_script(101) ................................................................................................24
pl_exp_start_script(101) ..................................................................................................25
Decoding ..................................................................................................................................27
Decoding the ICL .............................................................................................................27
Image Display...................................................................................................................27
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