Log Window
The main window of Standard is a scrollable text window which will record all output and calculations. This log window is a fully cut and paste enabled text window which can be used to transfer data or analysis results to any other Windows application such as a word processor or spreadsheet.
Simply click and drag the mouse to select text and use the <ctrl> c, <ctrl> x or <ctrl> v key combinations to copy, cut or paste text to or from the Windows Clipboard. Or use the Edit menu for these and other Clipboard functions.
The size of the log window buffer can be specified in the PROBEWIN.INI file and is limited only by the amount of memory available. If the Save Log to Disk File option is selected from the Output menu, then all log window output is mirrored to a text file, including any text manually entered by the user using the keyboard. The log window font and font size is specified in the PROBEWIN.INI file and may be changed during a run from the Output menu. To view a copy of the log file during a run, select the View Disk Log option from the Output menu.
All standards in the standard database are seen in the scrollable multi-select list box. Multi-select means that the list box supports the selection of more than one item. To select a range of items click the first item in the list and then holding the <shift> key, select the last item to be selected. To select individual items, click while holding the <ctrl> key down.
To see the compositional data for a particular standard, simply double click the standard in the list box. The standard composition and k-factors are output to the log window. Note that the k-factors calculated in Standard are based on the default operating voltage, take-off angle, x-ray lines, mass absorption coefficients and ZAF options for reference purposes only. Probe for EPMA calculates actual standard k-factors based on the actual analytical conditions of the specific sample. An example of this output is given here :
St 160 Set 0 NBS K-412 mineral glass
TakeOff = 40 KiloVolts = 15
Oxide and Elemental Composition
Elemental Wt. % Total : 99.260 Average Total Oxygen : 42.780
Average Calcu. Oxygen : 42.782 Average Excess Oxygen : -.002
Average Atomic Weight : 22.048 Average Atomic Number : 12.733
ELEM: SiO2 FeO MgO CaO Al2O3 MnO O
XRAY: ka ka ka ka ka ka ka
OXWT: 45.352 9.960 19.331 15.250 9.270 .099 -.002
ELWT: 21.199 7.742 11.657 10.899 4.906 .077 42.780
KFAC: .1621 .0654 .0777 .1008 .0334 .0006 .1696
ZCOR: 1.3080 1.1836 1.5000 1.0817 1.4672 1.2043 2.5223
BETA: .1632 .0631 .0732 .1023 .0312 .0004 .1634
ATWT: 16.766 3.079 10.653 6.040 4.039 .031 59.391
The keywords are defined here :
ELEM: Oxide formula or elemental symbol
XRAY: Defined x-ray lines for k-factor calculation
OXWT: Oxide formula weight percent (using defined oxides)
ELWT: Elemental weight percent
KFAC: Normalized elemental k-factor (using default Phi-Rho-Z)
ZCOR: ZAF correction factor (using default Phi-Rho-Z)
BETA: Beta correction factor (using default alpha-factors)
ATWT: Normalized atomic weight percent of element