The Control Panel is the first window to be displayed when NMRView starts up, and consists of a single menubar. Note that on Mac OS X the menubar will generally be displayed not as a separate window, but on the Desktops screen menu bar. The menus available through the menubar may be used to bring up various other NMRView windows. The options available through each menu item are summarized below.
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- STAR
- Read STAR3
Brings up a file selection panel for reading a BMRB Star file (NMRView database file). Almost any kind of analysis that NMRView can perform can be stored in a Star file.
- Save STAR3 As...
Brings up a file selection panel for writing a BMRB Star File.
- Save STAR3 (Auto Increment)
Saves a BMRB STAR file using a name automatically generated from the last saved STAR file. For example, if the last file saved was "myproject_3.str" the new file will be "myproject_4.str". This is a convenient way to make frequent updates of your data to a STAR file as you work on a project. To have this work properly you should start with an initial file name that ends with a non-integer character followd by an integer value (as in the above example).
- Fetch From BMRB...
Load the set of files found in your last session. Each time you use Scan Directory (or Clear and Scan Directory) the files found will be stored in a file. The files in this table will be opened.
- STAR2 (deprecated)
Earlier versions (before 8.0) of NMRViewJ used the STAR 2 file format. If you need to work with these older files use the choices in this menu. But some features of NMRViewJ (especially relating to RunAbout) can only be saved in STAR 3 files, so its a good idea to switch to the newer format. You can open a file in STAR 2 format, and save it out in STAR 3 format.
- Read STAR2 File
Use a File Browser to Open and read a STAR (version 2.x) File
- Write STAR2 File
Use a File Browser to Save a STAR (version 2.x) File.
- Projects
- Browser
Display the project browser used to manage NMRViewJ projects. You can open, clear, save and create new projects.
- Save
Save the current project (including STAR3 file and open windows).
- State
- Save State
Save, to a text file, the state of the current windows and datasets. If the state has been saved once already it will be saved to a file of the same name. If it hasn't you will be prompted in a file browser for a file name in which to save the state. If you have saved a STAR file during the current session the name of that STAR file will be saved in the state file as well.
- Save State As...
Same as "Save State" but always open a file browser to choose a file name in which to save the state.
- Load Last State
Load, from a a text file, previously saved windows and datasets. If you have, in a previous session of the program, saved the state this command will open that state file. If not, you will be prompted with a file browser for a state file to open. If a STAR file is referenced in the state file also open that STAR file.
- Load State...
Same as "Load State" but always open a file browser to choose a state file to load.
- Preferences...
Select Prefs to open up the Preferences Panel. This can be used to set various user preferences for NMRView. On Mac OS X this menu item will be found under the NMRViewJ menu
Print the active spectrum.
- Show Console
Show the NMRView console. The console can be used for command line input and displays the output of various commands. The NMRView console is based on the tkCon console developed by J. Hobbs.
- Quit
Quit the NMRViewJ program.