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This guide shows how the additional features of CODE are applied - background information on the computed quantities are described in a later chapter.

 

There is one additional list of objects, the list of so-called 'integral quantities'. These quantities characterize optical properties of layer stacks and are often used as the only characterizing numbers for products. Typical examples are color coordinates or averaged transmission coefficients in certain spectral ranges.

 

Integral quantities can be displayed in views (the main window of CODE). Details are described in a separate section.

 

Several minor differences are summarized in the section 'Other differences to SCOUT' below.

 

You can use CODE to generate presentations of your work.  A CODE presentation is a sequence of CODE configurations with some mechanisms to navigate around. Details are described here.

 

In order to use OLE automation of both SCOUT and CODE on one machine, the OLE server name of the two programs is different. The programs also differ in the available OLE commands: CODE supports all SCOUT OLE automation features and adds some more. The additional commands and properties of the CODE OLE server are described in a separate section.