Quick setup

This describes the steps involved in succesfully setting up the SprayQc application and its respective plugins. When a certain plugin is not desired, the associated DLL (e.g. sprayqc.video.DLL) can simply be removed from the directory where SprayQc is installed.

Prerequisites

• Standard Thermo setup for the control PC: Quad-core CPU with 4Gb of RAM.
• Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7 (32-bit)
• Sonation column oven and control software version >= 3.2.
• A video-server (e.g. Grand IP video server).
• Thermo nLC (support for other LC devices is underway).
• MSFileReader latest version.

Personal computer setup

The control PC is required to be run with full administrator rights to prevent any problems with blocked access.

When all software listed above has been installed you can start the application. The plugins automatically have reasonable settings for most of their options. Below is a description of how to change the most important settings. For more information on these settings and the additionally available settings.

Plugin setup – SprayQc.notification

Select ‘Mail [notification]’ in the plugin list. For each operator enter an operator-id (encoded in the filename, see Plugin setup – SprayQc.filesystem) and the associated e-mail address. An entry can be added by pressing the button, which opens a dialog.

Plugin setup – SprayQc.filesystem

Select 'File system settings' in the plugin list. Review and optionally change the 'RAW file directory'. Additionally, review the rule for the 'RAW filename format'. When a different format is required it can be change here (for more information, see View - File system settings).

Plugin setup – SprayQc.video

Select 'Video settings' in the plugin list. Review the URL used for accessing the video server. The server needs to be setup according to the supplied manual and the correct method of accessing the images can be found at Crazy Pixels. For optimizing the column tip extraction please refer to 'View - video settings'.

Plugin setup – SprayQc.thermo.nLC

Select 'Proxeon settings' in the plugin list. Review and change the URL used for accessing the nLC server.

First time monitoring

The first time the application is started and monitoring is commenced (press the button in the toolbar), Windows will ask whether the network access for application should be blocked.

Mark all the check boxes and press "Allow access".