Installation

 

Installing TomoVision’s sliceOmatic from the TomoVision USB key

 

What to have on hand:

•TomoVision’s sliceOmatic program USB key

•License Dongle

 

1.Log in as an administrator.

2.The program key contain only one file: sliceO_6_rx.exe (where xx is the revision number).  Simply double click on this file to launch the self extracting installation.

3.Follow the on-screen steps.

 

 

Installing TomoVision’s sliceOmatic from the Web

 

What to have on hand:

•License Dongle (If you have one. If not, the program will work in "Demo" mode).

 

Installing the Dongle

•Plug to dongle in the USB port. When the dongle is firmly in place, its indicator light will turn on. For more information on what is a dongle and why it is needed by the software, please refer to “The License” section.

 

Installing TomoVision’s sliceOmatic

1.Log in as an administrator.

2.With your WEB browser, go to the sliceOmatic download page: (http://www.tomovision.com/download/download_sliceo.htm) and click on the download button.

3.From the pop-up menu select "Run" and follow the on-screen steps.

 

Installing the dongle’s device drivers

1.The license dongle's drivers are automatically installed by the same script that installed the sliceOmatic program.

 

 

Uninstalling the Software

 

From the Windows Start Button, select Control Panel in the Settings menu. In the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Programs, left-click on SliceOmatic, and click on the Add/Remove button. The software and all its components are then removed from your hard drive.

 

 

Moving sliceOmatic to a new computer

 

If you wish to transfer the software from one computer to another, you can do it. The licenses are contained in the dongle and are not tied to the computer. Just install the software and the dongle's drivers on the new computer and transfer the dongle to that computer.

 

 

Updating the software

 

If you have a valid update license, you can download and install the latest version of sliceOmatic from the Web.

 

To upgrade the software, simply install the latest version over your old version.

 

 

Starting the Program

 

You can find all the installed sliceOmatic programs on the Windows Start menu under Program / Tomovision. You can also start the program by selecting image files with the mouse, drag them to the program icon and drop them there, or you can start the program without arguments, simply by clicking on its icon. By default the program resides in C:\Program Files\TomoVision.

 

When sliceOmatic starts, it first parses its command line arguments for special instructions, then it look in its “.ini” files for its default parameters.

 

SliceOmatic can accept the following command line arguments:

 

sliceOmatic [-s dir] [-n protocol] [-t level] [-v] [-z] [-x pos dim] [-y pos dim]

 

 

General operation arguments (shared by all TomoVision’s programs)

 

-t level

Trace level (0 <= level <= 5)

 

-v

Display the program’s version and creation date

 

-x pos dim          

Horizontal position and dimension of the program’s window (in pixels)

 

-y pos dim

Vertical position and dimension of the program’s window (in pixels)

 

Simplified menu arguments

 

-s "directory"

Specify the directory containing the simplified menu scripts

 

--n "protocol name"

Specify the name used in the Mode menu for the simplified menu group.

 

 

Note:

 

If you want to start more than 1 instance of sliceOmatic at the same time, you will need to assign a different pipe to each instance of sliceOmatic.

 

 

Program Crash

 

In the event of a program crash there will be an error log file called TomoVision.err  in the Scratch Directory ("Documents\TomoVision" by default). SliceOmatic also saves a list of all the images opened during your last session in “sliceOmatic_crash.scp” in the Scratch Directory. Upon startup, sliceOmatic will ask you if you want to automatically attempt to reload all these files.