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Interface

TkSurfer consists of two windows. The Display Window displays data. The Tools Window has toolbars, a menu bar, and display areas for the cursor and mouse location.

Display Window

tksurfer_display.jpg

Here is a look at the Display window. From looking in the title bar, you can see that the subject is called bert-brf. Here we see an inflated hemisphere surface with a grayscale curvature overlay and a colored functional overlay.

Tools Window

tksurfer_tools.jpg

The menu bar at the top of the Tools Window contains four menus. The File menu is for loading and unloading data and for saving changes. The Edit menu contains an undo item and selection utilities. The View menu contains options for specifying what data are displayed and configuring how these data are displayed. The Tools menu contains commands and utilities for working on data.

The top toolbar contains buttons for various cutting, drawing, and filling actions. Beneath that are three navigation panes used to rotate, translate, and zoom the view of the surface.

Main Toolbar

icon_redraw.gif

Redraw the screen

icon_cursor_save.gif

Save the cursor position

icon_cursor_goto.gif

Load the cursor position

icon_surface_main.gif

Show the main surface

icon_surface_inflated.gif

Show the inflated surface

icon_surface_white.gif

Show the white surface

icon_surface_pial.gif

Show the pial surface

icon_surface_original.gif

Show the orig(inal) surface

icon_curv.gif

Show the curvature

icon_overlay.gif

Show the overlay

icon_color_scalebar.gif

Show the overlay color scale bar

icon_label_off.gif

Show the labels

icon_label_filled.gif

Show the labels as filled shapes

icon_label_outline.gif

Show the labels as outlined shapes

icon_camera.gif

Save the current display as TIFF image

icon_disk_multiview.gif

Save all the 4 views of the current display as TIFF images

Tools Toobar

icon_cut_line.gif

Make a cutting line

icon_cut_closed_line.gif

Make a closed cutting line

icon_cut_plane.gif

Make a cutting plane

icon_cut_area.gif

Cut a contiguous area

icon_cut_clear.gif

Clear all cuts

icon_draw_line.gif

Draw a path

icon_draw_line_closed.gif

Draw a closed path

icon_fill_label.gif

Show the fill label dialog box

icon_erase_line.gif

Erase the current line

icon_marked_to_label.gif

Make a label out of marked vertices

icon_label_to_marked.gif

Mark the vertices in the current label

icon_erase_label.gif

Erase the current label

icon_color_label.gif

Change the color of the current label

icon_home.gif

Set the camera to the home position

icon_arrow_rot_x_pos.gif icon_arrow_rot_z_neg.gif icon_arrow_rot_y_neg.gif icon_arrow_rot_x_neg.gif icon_arrow_rot_y_pos.gif icon_arrow_rot_z_pos.gif

Rotate the view

icon_arrow_left.gif icon_arrow_down.gif icon_arrow_up.gif icon_arrow_right.gif

Translate or pan the view

icon_zoom_out.gif icon_zoom_in.gif

Zoom the view

Beneath that is an area divided into halves. Each half displays information about the cursor (left half) or mouse location (right half). This area expands downwards are more data types are loaded and have information that need displaying. You can go directly to a vertex index by typing into the field labeled Vertex Index underneath the Cursor area.

The overlay information lines have editable fields that allow you to rename the overlays layers. Additionally, the button next to each one will switch to that layer.

TkSurferGuide/TkSurferGeneralUsage/TkSurferInterface (last edited 2009-01-22 16:25:27 by KrishSubramaniam)