T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S 1 INTRODUCTION 7 1.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE 7 1.2 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS 7 1.3 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS 7 1.4 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS 7 1.5 GLOSSARY 7 1.6 STYLISTIC CONVENTIONS 8 2 USER's GUIDE 9 2.1 OVERVIEW 9 2.2 THE INS ENVIRONMENT 9 2.3 NEW HEADER FOR SHORT-FITS FILES 11 2.4 INHERITANCE FOR PAF FILES 11 2.5 THE TEMPLATE INHERITANCE SCHEME 12 2.5.1 Introduction 12 2.5.2 The Basic Concept 12 2.5.3 VLT-SW-NOV97 Support 14 2.5.4 Organizing the Source Data 15 2.6 USAGE OF OSLX FOR INS APPLICATIONS 15 2.7 USING OF OSLX WITHOUT CCS 16 2.8 OSLX IN THE VLT SEQUENCER WISH/SHELL SHELLS 16 2.9 OSLX SHELL 16 2.10 SINGLE KEYWORDS - CLASS oslxKEYWORD 16 2.11 ALIAS CONVERSION - CLASS oslxALIAS 17 2.12 CONFIGURATION FILES - CLASS oslxCONFIG 17 2.13 DATA INTERFACE DICTIONARIES - CLASS oslxDICTIONARY 17 2.14 KEYWORD FILTER - CLASS oslxKEYW_FILTER 17 2.15 SHORT-FITS FILES - CLASS oslxSHORT_FITS 18 2.16 SETUP FILES AND KEYWORDS - CLASS oslxSETUP 18 2.16.1 Example: Receiving/Sending off a CCS SETUP Command Message Buffer 20 2.16.2 Example: Usage of the oslxSETUP Change Record 21 2.16.3 Example: Extraction of Selected Keywords 21 2.16.4 Example: Saving Keyword in a Setup File 22 2.17 DATA FILE FITS HEADER - CLASS oslxFITS 22 2.17.1 Example: Creating a New Data FITS File using oslxFITS 22 2.17.2 Example: Adding Keywords in an Existing FITS File 23 2.18 IMAGE FILE HANDLING --OSLXFITS_EXT 24 2.18.1 Basic functionalities 24 2.18.2 Extention Handling 26 2.18.3 Binary Table Handling 26 2.18.4 View pixels of imagefile 28 2.18.5 Printout the contents of a FITS file header on the stdout 28 2.19 OSLX SERVER (CCS) 28 2.20 HANDLING OF SETUP FILES FROM GUI PANELS 29 2.21 ERROR HANDLING 30 3 REFERENCE 31 3.1 APPLICATIONS 31 3.2 CLASSES 57 3.3 SLXTCL LIBRARY PROCEDURES 101 4 INSTALLATION 113 5 ERROR MESSAGES 115
