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5 - Starting Freedom EVOware
Overview of the Main Window in Freedom EVOware
Show labware
This option is shown when you select a carrier or a carrier which is a device. It
opens the Labware tab of the Control Panel. Allowed Labware then shows the
labware types which are compatible with the selected carrier.
Show me
This runs a short animation (film) to demonstrate the currently selected task.
The animations are stored in AVI format and will be shown e.g. in Windows
Media Player.
5.4.3 The Process Editor (Freedom EVOware Plus)
In Freedom EVOware Plus, the sequence of steps which are required to carry out
a particular application or experiment, for example to extract the substance you
are looking for, is called a process. The process specifies the operations you want
the pipetting instrument to execute. Processes are set up in the Process Editor,
which is shown at the top right of the screen.
In the Process Editor, each process step (such as centrifuging a plate or pipetting
to a plate) is shown as an icon, whereby each icon is associated with a single
device such as a centrifuge, a storage device or the liquid handling arm.
See 13.2 “Overview of Device Commands”, 13-12 for a list of device commands
which are provided with the standard Freedom EVOware installation. When
installing Freedom EVOware, you normally only install the device drivers which
you want to use.
There are four basic types of icon - process steps, labware source icons, final
position icons and on-the-fly icons:
Fig. 5-11 Process Editor showing an example process
If you need more space for the Process Editor, you can collapse the Worktable
Editor by clicking in the title bar. In addition, you can collapse the Infopad
windows by clicking in the title bars. You can also resize the windows by
dragging the dividers between the windows.
Process steps are created by dragging commands from the Control Bar onto the
Process Editor. A process is then created by interlinking the process steps to
create the workflow which is required by your application or experiment.
The bottom part of each process step icon shows the name or names of the
labware items which are involved in the operation (so-called object parameters).
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