viewerdatamanager

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Tool for importing data into the Viewer

include "viewerdatamanager.g"

Description

The Data manager is a graphical user interface only tool to provide a context sensitive import of data into the Viewer tool. It is a front-end to the viewer.loaddata function in the Viewer tool.

**Figure 1.7:** The Viewer Data Manager
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This GUI has three major control areas and a couple of buttons an a menu:

File Chooser

The top-left corner shows a ``File Chooser'', a text field to enter directories and a listbox to select your data files on disk. This listbox shows the filtered content of the specified directory, i.e. only types understood by the Viewer tool are listed. The file types supported are can be found in viewer.loaddata.

Tool Chooser

Here all supported Glish tools are listed, e.g if you have opened an image tool with the variable name im it will show up here.

Display Type selector

Once you have selected a supported file or tool, the box called ``DisplayData Type'' to the right, shows all the drawing types which are supported for this kind of data. The possible types are:

Raster Image
Contour Map
Vector Map
Marker Map
Sky catalog overlay

Update

Update the contents of the current directory and Glish tools.

Autoregister

Your data will automatically be registered (displayed) on all Viewerdisplaypanel tools. In some cases like the Skycatalog you might want to disable this to make sure you don't register it by itself.

Menu bar

The File entry of the menu bar is identical to the same menu item in viewerdisplaypanel gui.

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	Package	display
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viewerdatamanager - Tool