I got a new computer and had to re-install SMAK, the newer Anaconda has a version of setup tools incompatible seemingly (traceback yields an error in finding pkg_resources) - rolled back the setup tools using:pip install "setuptools<70" for setup 69.5.1 and then smak was able to start normally. The prior issues with numpy and pymca noted below seemed OK now, but of course be aware when installing there can be versioning incompatibilities...

Today I noticed with our student's new install of SMAK 3.0.9 (although this was also happening with my 3.0.8 version originally before I fixed my .cfg file) the defaultPyMCAConfig.cfg file has a line that causes peak fitting to crash when performing MCA peak-fitting. The error that comes back from SMAK is:

ValueError Exception in Tk callback

  Function: <bound method Main.testMCAfitdata of <__main__.Main object at 0x000002EAA3173370>> (type: <class 'method'>)

  Args: ()

Traceback (innermost last):

  File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\smakenv\lib\site-packages\Pmw\Pmw_2_1_1\lib\PmwBase.py", line 1761, in __call__

Hello Sam,

I am a graduate student at Chungbuk University in Korea. 

I am trying to use Sixpack for data analysis, but I am unable to find the manual on the Samware website, which is preventing me from using it properly. 

On the homepage, Sixpack's manual is  under construction. 

Could you please send me the manual or some information like a document about Sixpack?

Thank you.

Hello,

I'm noticing that as I process some XAS data, some mu files (which I've prepared by averaging scans in SamView and then correcting in the background removal module) can't be plotted correctly when they are opened in the PCA module. When multiple files are prepared identically, some are affected and others are not. Both the .mu and .xdi mu files are affected. The files contain full spectra and I can't see any obvious problems in the files.

Repeating the processing steps with the same raw data seems to result in an identical mu file that can't be plotted. I get the same problem with versions 1.4 and 1.5.6. I haven't tried another computer yet but I'm having the problem on the BL4-1 processing computer. I made sure there are no hyphens in my file names.

I'm attaching example files and an image of the failed plotting.

Thanks for any…

I recently did a fresh install of Anaconda3 and SMAK on a M1 Mac.

While my previous installation of Anaconda and SMAK proceeded exactly as described on the installation webpage, this time I came across some hurdles.

1. While I believe that I had installed my previous Anaconda3 for all users, the "/opt/anaconda3" direcoty was in my "User/opt/anaconda3" directory as described in the installation instructions on sams-xrays. Yet this new installation installed in "/opt/anaconda3". i.e. directly on the Macintosh HD, not in the user directory. I may be mistaken about my previous install, but it is worth noting that maybe something changed with the installation defaults. Anyway, this meant that my shortcut no longer worked and I had to edit for the new directory.
   

2. The command for creating the smakenv "conda create -n smakenv python==3.10" created the environment in the "osx-arm64" architecture. i.e. the Apple Silicon architecture. The previous architecture is "osx-64". Not…

Hi - another error for installation has been reported.

We should get this in the installer in release 3.10, but until then, a new version of PyMCA was released using numpy 2.0, which breaks SMAK. Once there is a more uniform use of numpy 2.0 across all dependencies, SMAK will upgrade to numpy2.0 as well, but for now, we have to stick to the old version.

If you run into a numpy error in pyMCA when running smak, please downgrade pyMCA for now:

“pip install pymca5==5.8.2”

PyMCA 5.8.2 will definitely work, and maybe up to 5.9.0....

Cheers!

Ok, for the Mac people out there, you can follow these steps...

(1) Open "Automator" on your Mac

(2) Create a new application, you can call it anything you like (I called mine RunSMAK)

(3) Crate a new step from "Run AppleScript"

(4) Your AppleScript should contain:

on run

Create a desktop shortcut to SMAK 3.0

1. Open a new notebook file 

2. Type the following: 

call C:\Users\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat smakenv

pause

cd C:\Users\Anaconda3\envs\smakenv\Lib\site-packages\smak

(6/21/2024) Following installation of SMAK 3.0 on a PC running windows 10 (not sure if this is exclusive to W10), encountered the following error when trying to run SMAK:

A module that was compiled using NumPy 1.x cannot be run in NumPy 2.0.0 as it may crash. To support both 1.x and 2.x versions of NumPy, modules must be compiled with NumPy 2.0. Some module may need to rebuild instead e.g. with 'pybind11>=2.12

Likely, new versions of packages were released for Anaconda. Even Numpy versions that are < 2.0.0. may lead to this error.

NumPy 1.26 was found to solve the issue. To install:

pip install numpy==1.26.4

Then, SciPy also needed to be downgraded as outlined elsewhere in this forum: