Software control: Microscope Control
3-9
C O N F I D E N T I A L
– limited rights
User Manual
Revision A
Feb 2018
Menu bar
The pull-down menus are shown across the screen.
FIGURE 3-6:
The Menu Bar
Expand pull-down menus from the menu bar by:
•
Clicking on the Menu title
•
Entering Alt + underscored keyboard letters
•
Entering Alt + keyboard the Enter button
Note
Some menu functions have their equivalents in the toolbar. When this is the case, the corresponding toolbar icon is shown
next to the function title in the following text.
thermoscientific menu
Standalone applications for particular use are listed here. It is also
possible to start them.
•
Movie creator
•
Working folder
•
If there are more applications installed with the system, they
are listed here just as in the Windows start menu:
all programs / FEI company / Applications / for instance: VolumeScope, Auto Slice and View, iFast, AutoTEM, …
File menu
opens the File menu administrative functions:
Open
shows a standard dialog for opening images previously stored to
media. Supported digital file formats are TIF8/16/24, JPG and
BMP (see Chapter 5). The dialog shows, by default, the location
(path) last used to open or save files from the UI.
Save (Ctrl + S)
saves the image using the format, location and base name set by
the last used
Save As
function in that display. An incremental
suffix with a selectable number of digits ensures that every image
is saved as a new file, e.g. Name_001.tif, Name_002.tif, etc.
Save As
opens a dialog for saving images, which provides an opportunity
to change an image’s file name and location. An image can be
saved in
TIF8/16/24
,
JPG
or
BMP
file format.
The dialog shows, by default, the location and the name last used
to save / open a file for the active display. A user can change a
location, name base or suffix, select a different image format
(
Save as type
), and also choose whether to
Save
the
image with
/
without
Databar
and
with
/ without
overlaid graphics
by ticking /
clearing the appropriate check box. The settings are remembered
and used for subsequent Save actions.
