AIPS View Window Menus

On starting, one gets an AIPS View window with four menu buttons: File, Edit, Session, and Options. During operations which may take significant time, such as image loading and contour drawing, these four labels will change to Busy to let you know that aipsview is alive and working.

Figure 2.1: AIPS View Window

File Menu

The File menu brings up five choices: Open Data..., Close Data, Update ~/.aipsviewrc, Create aipsviewrc.list, and Quit.

Open Data...

This brings up a standard Motif file selection box, from which an image file may be selected and loaded (n.b., if you reload a file that is already loaded, all previous views will be closed and a default view will be started). When AIPS++ or MIRIAD support is enabled, image datasets (which are directories) will appear in the Files list in addition to the Directories list.

Close Data

The current data set is closed and removed from the Session menu; to select a data set as current see Section 2.1.3.

Update $\sim$/.aipsviewrc

Any current global aipsview settings that have been changed from the default values are written to the user resource file. The default resource filename is ~/.aipsviewrc, however, the filename can be overridden by the AIPSVIEWRC environment variable (see Section A.1.1). If an explicit path is not included, the location of the specified file will be placed in the directory, in which aipsview was started.

Create aipsviewrc.list

This is similar to Update ~/.aipsviewrc, except that all global variables used by aipsview (not just the ones that have been changed by the user) are written to the file aipsviewrc.list in the directory where aipsview was started. The purpose of this option is to show the user a large list of global variables that can possibly can be set.

Quit

Exits the aipsview program.

After a data set is loaded, the AIPS View window displays basic information about the data set and a Display window is opened with a default display of the image.

Edit Menu

Currently, the Edit menu contains a two toggles: PGPLOT ID String, which is turned on by default, and One Relative Indexing.

PGPLOT ID String

When this is selected, all output which is printed to a PostScript file (see printing Profile, Section 2.4.4 and Print Image, Section 2.3.1) will include an ID string written to the bottom right-hand corner of the page. The string includes your username and the date and time of plot file creation.

One Relative Indexing

When this is selected all channel numbers and pixel coordinates are relative to one, otherwise the numbers are relative to zero. If aipsview was compiled with AIPS++ or MIRIAD support, this is selected by default, otherwise the default is that one One Relative Indexing is not selected.

Session Menu

The Session menu lists all of the data sets which are loaded. To switch from one data set to another, choose the data set name from this menu; information about the selected data set will be displayed in the AIPS View window. If the Animation and Blinking panel is currently shown in the AIPS View window, information on the currently selected data set can be redisplayed by selecting the data set name from the Session menu.

Options Menu

This Options menu currently has three choices:

Colormap Editor

The window for manipulation and editing of the color lookup editor is opened, see Section 3.3 for details.

Animate

This starts the animate function for display of planes in the 3rd dimension of a data cube as a movie and for blinking images from two data sets, see Section 3.1.1 for details.

Defaults:(Show)

This is a submenu that presents a series of toggles which allow the user to set the default display features.

Info Outside

This toggles between having the information for image displays as a separate window (Info View) or expanding the Display window to contain this information. The latter is the default, although this can be changed by using an X-defaults file, as described in the Appendix A.1.2. Selecting this option affects all subsequent windows opened (i.e., it does not affect windows already opened).

Region, Profile, Included Profiles, Raster, Contours, Included Contours, Axis, Wedge, and Overlay

These nine toggles control whether these features are displayed for newly opened windows by default.