Incorporating "traditional" readout software

Incorporating "traditional" readout software

Since the NSCL Data Acquisition system has run for several years with a prototoype readout skeleton, there is quite a large body of existing readout code. We'll refer to this code as "traditional" readout software. The current readout software supports incorporating a single traditional readout skeleton in the experiment readout. For simple experiments this will be sufficient, however for complex experiments, that merge data from several apparati, you should consider porting your readout to the object oriented readout scheme described in How to Structure Your Readout.

Traditional readout support is done by wrapping the skeleton of the traditional readout software in an object of type: CTraditionalEventSegment. To do this in your readout:

• Obtain the readout skeleton as described in Obtaining the Readout skeleton.
• Copy the skeleton.cpp and all headers and other source files you wrote to your readout working directory. Do not copy ReadoutMain.cpp.
• Modify your Makefile so that it will build skeleton.o and any other object modules your software needs.
• In MyExperiment.cpp, locate the implementation of SetupReadout and the comment:

  	    // Insert your code below this comment.
  	    

  Add the line:

  	    rExperiment.AddEventSegment(new CTraditionalEventSegment);
  	    

Incorporating "traditional" readout software