some notes on ALMA Control Software (ACS)

documentation

• this ppt file readable with ooimpress seems to be a good start for documentation:
  • http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/develop/acs/OtherDocs/ACSPapersAndSlides/ACS-LastPresentation.ppt
• the twiki seems to be quite active
  • http://almasw.hq.eso.org/almasw/bin/view/ACS/WebHome

however: documentation missing in downloaded and online versions

• Many subdirectories such as doc/ html/ idl/ seem to be empty in the downloaded package.
• The main online website also has some nice tables of contents, but the contents are only skeletons, e.g.
  • http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/develop/acs/OnlineDocs/ACSCookbook/Components.xml.html
    • At the moment this reads Overview ... This section should contain a general overview about the topic being discussed., High-level Guide and/or Small Example ... This section should contain a very high-level algorithm to perform some operation related to the topic (or link to a document which does this) and/or a small, yet complete line-by-line example of the topic (or link to a document which does this). Lots of "should contain"s = TODOs...

what files deal with pointing in LGPL/CommonSoftware?

ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acscourse/ws/idl/ACSErrTypeACSCourse.xml
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acserr/ws/idl/ExmplErrType.xml
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acserr/ws/uml/ErrorSystem.mdl
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acsexmpl/ws/idl/acsexmplAmsSeq.idl
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acsexmpl/ws/include/acsexmplAmsSeqImpl.h
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acsexmpl/ws/include/acsexmplDocumentation.h
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acsexmpl/ws/src/acsexmplClientAmsSeq.cpp
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/ACSLaser/demo/test/CDB/Alarms/Administrative/ReductionDefinitions/ReductionDefinitions.xml
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/ACSLaser/laser-guiplatform/src/cern/laser/guiplatform/util/BrowserLauncher.java
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acstestentities/idl/TestObsProject.xsd
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acstestentities/idl/TestSchedBlock.xsd
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acstestentities/test/data/xml_instances_fake/ObsProject1.xml
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acstestentities/test/data/xml_instances_fake/ObsProposal1.xml
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/acsutil/ws/include/acsutilWildcard.h
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/cdb/ws/test/CDB-MIX/CDB/MACI/Components/CONTROL/CVS/Entries.Log
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/cdb/ws/test/CDB-MIX/CDB/MACI/Components/CONTROL/OpticalPointing/CVS/Repository
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/cdb/ws/test/CDB-MIX/CDB/MACI/Components/CONTROL/OpticalPointing/Generic/CVS/Repository
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/cdb/ws/test/CDB-MIX/CDB/MACI/Components/CONTROL/OpticalPointing/Generic/Generic.xml
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/cdb/ws/test/CDB-NEW/CDB/MACI/Components/CONTROL/CVS/Entries.Log
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/cdb/ws/test/CDB-NEW/CDB/MACI/Components/CONTROL/OpticalPointing/CVS/Repository
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/cdb/ws/test/CDB-NEW/CDB/MACI/Components/CONTROL/OpticalPointing/Generic/CVS/Repository
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/cdb/ws/test/CDB-NEW/CDB/MACI/Components/CONTROL/OpticalPointing/Generic/Generic.xml
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/cdb/ws/test/ref_WS/cdbTestRead.ref
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/mountguiexample/bin/.nbattrs
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/mountguiexample/src/antMountGUI/AntennaMountGUI.java
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/mountguiexample/src/antMountGUI/CVS/Entries
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/mountguiexample/src/antMountGUI/.nbattrs
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/mountguiexample/src/antMountGUI/PointingAzElDlg.java
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/mountguiexample/src/.nbattrs
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/nctest/ws/idl/DataCaptureExample.idl
ACS/LGPL/CommonSoftware/XmlIdl/idl/ACSErrTypeACSCourse.xml