It is easy to incorporate information from an instrument or the telescope into your scripts. ... mess with the getKeyVar statements because getKeyVar returns None in debug mode, making the commands run, which is perfect. import TUI .TCC.TCCModel import TUI .Inst. DIS .DISModel from TUI .Inst. DIS .StatusConfigInputWdg import StatusConfigInputWdg InstName = DIS class ScriptClass(object): Simple script to configure DIS . def __init__(self, sr): Display ...

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