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How to install or change versions of aXis 2000 - Windows

2) download aXis2000.zip and aXis2000.sav (Since ~2018, aXis2000.zip contains aXis2000.sav)

3) unzip aXis2000.zip contents into c:\aXis2000 (using 'keep folder names' if your unzip has that as an option)
    After unzipping, there should be the following folders
     c:\aXis2000\AAdata
     c:\aXis2000\java
     c:\aXis2000\logo
     c:\aXis2000\sfdata

4) copy aXis2000.sav into c:\aXis2000 folder ( if it was not already there from the aXis2000.zip )

5) (change version) copy c:\axis2000-(OLD_VERSION)\axis.ini    to    c:\aXis2000\axis.ini
    (keeps the parts of axis2000 customized to your computer)

In general, while aXis2000 was designed to run with the code in any folder,
    in fact it often has errors or does not run, unless the code files are in c:\aXis2000

 Do NOT use folder names with blanks for the source code or your data !!!

6) (new install for IDL 6.3 or earlier)
      If you have a license for IDL,
     A) make a desktop shortcut to the IDLDE.exe (development environment)
         e.g. for IDL6.3, the default location is C:\RSI\IDL63\bin\bin.x86\idelde.exe
     B) in IDLDE change the startup (under File~preferences) to
                 Working directory: C:\aXis2000\         Startup file: aXis2000_batch.pro

      If you do NOT have a license for IDL, you will use the virtual machine (VM) aspect of IDL (program/app is idlrt.exe)
     A) make a desktop shortcut to c:\aXis2000\aXis2000.sav
         e.g. for IDL6.3, the default location is C:\RSI\IDL63\bin\bin.x86\idlrt.exe
     B) change the Properties of the shortcut to add -vm=c:\axis2000\aXis2000.sav
                after the path to idlrt.exe (the IDL VM program)
        e.g. C:\RSI\IDL63\bin\bin.x86\idlrt.exe -vm=c:\axis2000\aXis2000.sav

7) (new install for IDL 7.0 or later) - this uses the ECLIPSE deveopment environment

     (NEEDS TO BE ADDED - aph 19 Oct 2023)

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THERE CAN BE A PROBLEM with running IDL6.3 (probably many older versions)
on modern PCs running Windows (post 2015 perhaps ??)
two DLL files required for running IDL [msvcr70.dll, mfc70.dll] may have been removed from the c:\windows area

When you try to start IDL (either licensed, idlde.exe) or virtual machine (idlrt.exe) there will be a warning
if one of the other of these files is missing. They are in the aXis2000.zip file and thus in c:\aXis2000 folder.
copy the missing dll files to c:\windows folder (you will be asked to approve)

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Workflow instructions are given in the aXis2000 guides to specific procedures

Some tutorials are available to guide users through specific data analysis procedures:

   simple-tutorial        advanced-tutorial        stack_analyze              stack_fit

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This package was developed and is maintained by Adam Hitchcock (1997..). Please cite the following article in any
papers where aXis2000 has been used for data analysis

A. P. Hitchcock, Analysis of X-ray images and spectra (aXis2000): a toolkit for the analysis of X-ray spectromicroscopy data,
J. Electron Spectrosc. Rel.Phen., 266 (2023) 147360.

It contains code contributions from many people including:
Chris Jacobsen   Peter Hitchcock   Carl Zimba    Billy Loo    Eli Rotenberg     Jonathan Denlinger     Rick Kneedler   Jacob Stewart-Ornstein     Goran Johansson