Parameter templates

The Microscopic Parameters of an image can be saved, using Huygens Essential or Huygens Professional, in a template on the hard disk for future reuse. This makes parameter tuning and confirmation faster and more reliable.

Those template files are loadable in the very start of the wizard, hence the user can skip the parameters verification stage, provided that an image is to be restored with the same optical properties as the ones which were recorded on the template.

Professional

When editing the Microscopic Parameters you have buttons to load, save, import and export templates.

Essential

The Load microscopic template buttow allows you to choose a template from your personal template directory only.

The Import microscopic template button will allow you to choose a template from a list of pre-saved template files which reside both in the common templates directory and in the user's personal template directory.

Saving a template in Huygens Essential.

You can also choose to load a template file from a different location by pressing the From disk... option.

Templates are also used in the Batch Processor.

Location

Templates are saved to disk as files with suffix .hgst. The Huygens common templates directory is named Templates, and resides in the Huygens installation directory, namely /usr/local/svi/Templates on Unix systems, C:\Program Files\SVI\Templates on Windows and /Applications/SVI/Templates on the Mac OS X. The user's personal templates directory is called .svi on the Unix platforms and SVI on Windows, and it can be found in the user's home directory on Unix, and in C:\Documents and Settings\user_name on Windows.