The CT-EW1 Calibration Table has been quite a success since its introduction more than two years ago. It's a very ingenious concept cast into a precisely machined piece of hardware - no question about that. Some, though, have found the software (available from the developer, Prof. Erhard Wielandt) a bit on the academic side - you might call it no-frills to the max.

The programs are written in Fortran, a language not exactly famous for its fault tolerance , and they are command line and parameter file driven. In order to take out much if not all of the handiwork involved with running these programs, and in order to make the suite (comprising the dispcal and tiltcal programs for the actual data processing, the seife program as a Swiss army knife that does filtering, format conversion and then some) more amenable we have begun development on an application launcher and parameter editor program. Written in Java (using the Swing toolkit and developed using NetBeans), this program runs under Windows (you may have to load Java first) as well as many flavors of Unix and Linux.

Top-level menu - the red tint indicates that the path to the executable programs has not yet been set, and hence there really isn't much that the program can do

Editing the parameter file data 

The idea is to run the executable files as-is. No modification or recoding of Prof. Wielandt's software is necessary or intended. The user only needs to point the application launcher to the directory where the executables reside.

Here's the directory selection dialog as it appears on Mac OS X (where the program is being developed, and below is the same thing for Windows XP (note that the OS's native language setting, German in this case, is retained): 

The program also features neat little niceties like this "microvolts per count" calculator.