The menu bar

The menu bar, as for every graphical application, allow to perform actions via drop-down menus.

On Mac OSX operation systems, the menu bar can be found in the menu bar at the top of the screen. On all the other operating systems the menu bar is located in the upper part of the VDAT window.

Note

Colors and icons might change depending on the operating system and graphical environment.

File menu

Under this menu there are actions to:

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  • Redo symlink: if the raw directory/ies provided via the configuration file or the command line arguments exist, this action is enables and it allows to redo the symlinking without restarting VDAT.

  • Delete fits and thumbnails: allow to remove all the fits files, the corresponding error files and thumbnails matching the entries from the intermediate_files option of the [general] section of the main configuration file. It is possible to delete the files from the selected directory or everywhere. The former option is enabled only after selecting one directory.

    It is possible to remove a different set of files for a specific directory type specifying them in the intermediate_files_typ option of the [general] section. For instance if the type is cal the option would be called intermediate_files_cal. This works only when removing files from the selected directory.

  • Delete all thumbnails: remove all the thumbnails either from the selected directory of everywhere.

  • Quit VDAT

View menu

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This menu contains two entries:

  • hide or show the queue window. The queue can also be closed clicking on the corresponding button in the queue window and the change is mirrored into this menu;
  • collapse or expand the directory tree shown in the “Reduction Browser”.

Select menu

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This menu allow to select or deselect all the IFUs at once.

Log menu

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This menu is divided in two parts. The “Clear log panel” button clears the The logging panel.

The “Open log file” shows a list of log files: clicking on one of the entries open the corresponding files in a new window, like e.g. in the image below. The window watches the file and if it is modified the “Refresh” action, available in the toolbar and in the “File” menu, is activated and allow to reload the file.

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Help menu

Under this menu there are actions to:

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  • VDAT Handbook: offline VDAT documentation
  • VDAT Online Resources: contains the links to this html documentation
  • About VDAT: contains information like the version and the authors
  • About Qt: information about the Qt version in use