Tasks

Although developed from the very beginning centered around a graphical user interface (GUI), an important aspect of this toolbox is to strictly separate those functions actually performing operations on datasets from the user interface.

What follows is a documentation of the tasks the toolbox should be able to perform, independent on the user interface used to access the underlying functions to perform these tasks.

Goal: A list of tasks that the toolbox should be able to perform on datasets, together with a detailled description of each task.

The tasks the toolbox was designed for can be divided into several separate areas:

• Input/output (I/O)
  • General I/O routines, such as reading and saving of spectra
• Preprocessing
  Processing of raw data
  • Accumulation
  • Smoothing
  • Averaging
• Analysis
  (General) analysis of preprocessed data
  • Measuring distances
  • Fitting time profiles (i.e., their decay)
  • Comparing spectra at different times (temporal evolution)
  • Comparing of different spectra/different time profiles
  • …

Further tasks, more related to operating the toolbox and data display, can be categorised as follows:

• Figures
  • Modifications of figures
  • Save/export figures in different (file) formats
• GUI
  all GUI-related functions