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<div>A bit of news about GSAS-II: </div>
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<div>First, if you have not noticed, GSAS-II has new capabilities for sequential refinements, parametric fits and small angle scattering. The tutorials are a good place to see how this is used. </div>
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<div>Second, work (mostly from Bob) has started on working with TOF neutron data. Funding for the TOF work is coming from ORNL, thanks to Ashfia Huq, Thomas Proffen and their Users� Group (SHUG). Work will start with single crystal (since that code is used
in powder fitting). Expect perhaps six months before TOF work is complete. This will require significant changes �under the hood (bonnet)� in extending data structures, so things that currently work may break. </div>
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<div>We frequently get bug reports that we can�t act upon without getting a lot more information. To save your time and ours, before reporting a bug, please confirm you are using the newest GSAS-II version (see Help/Check for Updates). If you are not running
the latest and greatest (or sometimes buggiest), we will usually tell you to update and then see if the problem persists, so we don�t spend a lot of time tracking down something that we have already fixed. When you do report a bug, sending an e-mail to this
mailing list (<a href="mailto:gsas-ii@mailman.aps.anl.gov">gsas-ii@mailman.aps.anl.gov</a>) is reasonable, since other people may learn from it, or you can send it to us (both <a href="mailto:vondreele@anl.gov">vondreele@anl.gov</a> and <a href="mailto:toby@anl.gov">toby@anl.gov</a>,
please) if you are shy. </div>
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<div>Note, when reporting bugs to us, please do the following: </div>
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<div>1) Send us the traceback that shows any error message(s) at the end of the console window (as below), if you see one. If not, explain exactly what is going wrong. </div>
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<div>2) Report the startup lines that GSAS-II prints at the beginning of the console output (as below) so we know what version of Python etc. you are using. You may need to scroll up in the window or restart GSAS-II to get this. </div>
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<div>3) Please tell us exactly what things we need to do (after starting G2 using your .gpx file) to get to the error you have (tell us: click on � then�)</div>
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<div>4) Get us the .gpx file � don�t broadcast that to <a href="mailto:gsas-ii@mailman.aps.anl.gov">gsas-ii@mailman.aps.anl.gov</a>, but do e-mail it to <a href="mailto:toby@anl.gov">toby@anl.gov</a> and <a href="mailto:vondreele@anl.gov">vondreele@anl.gov</a>,
or upload it to <a href="https://anl.box.com/s/al9fl3on5xvxqjql2y4q">https://anl.box.com/s/al9fl3on5xvxqjql2y4q</a> (you will need to set up a guest account) or use some other sharing service, such as <a href="http://dropbox.com">dropbox.com</a> and include
a link in the e-mail. </div>
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<div>5) If your error involves processing an image, we will need that too. Again please don�t send that to the full list, either. </div>
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<div>Brian & Bob</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Sample startup message: </b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">GSAS-II binary directory: /Users/toby/software/G2/GSASII/binmac64-2.7</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Python module versions loaded:</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">python: 2.7.6</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">wxpython: 2.9.2.4</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">matplotlib: 1.3.1</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">numpy: 1.8.0</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">scipy: 0.13.3</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">OpenGL: 3.0.1</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Image (PIL): 1.1.7</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Max threads 1</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">This is GSAS-II version: 0.2.0 revision 1420</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Sample error traceback: </b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Traceback (most recent call last):</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"> File "/Users/toby/software/G2/GSASII/GSASIIphsGUI.py", line 5282, in OnPageChanged</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"> print G2frame.dataDisplay.GetTitle() </div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">AttributeError: 'GSNoteBook' object has no attribute 'GetTitle'</div>
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