Windows Remote Control for the Philips CM Microscope
New software has been developed to make it possible to control the CM microscope under Windows. The software structure is such that all programs communicate through a dynamic link library CMREMOTE.DLL and communication program SECS2.EXE with the microscope (Fig. 1). Due to this structure, the amount of memory required is minimised since functional duplication is avoided, and the remote control handling is simplified because the user programs do not need to handle the complicated communication protocol but instead use simple functions such as Get Alignment and CompuStage Goto Position. Several sets of programs are finished, with further additions planned to replace currently available software running under MS-DOS.Available at the moment is the Windows CM Remote Control package which contains the Windows CM Monitor, a program to read alignments, stigmator settings and mode settings from microscope and store them in a file on the PC. With the file are stored an operator name and comments to allow identification who stored the data and for what reason.