The Scenes Window is the interface to
save the current Workbench session (loaded files and settings) as
a Scene
(in a .scene file). Scenes allow one to save a snapshot of a
Workbench session that contains a record of all of the files
loaded and view settings, making it easy to get to a specific
display. Using scenes, one can "pick up where they left off"
when reopening Workbench.
File Section
- Scene File selection is used to
choose among loaded Scene files. Use File>Open
File... to load an existing scene file and have it
show up in this selector.
- New Creates
a new Scene File. A new Scene File is created with
no scenes within it. Add any number of scenes with the Add
button.
- Save Saves the selected
scene file using its current name. This button is
disabled if the selected scene file has never been saved and
so the Save As button should be used to save the file.
- Zip Creates a ZIP file
containing the scene file and all data files it references.
- List Files Lists all data
files from all scenes within the scene file
- Open Displays a file selection
dialog for selecting and opening a scene file.
- Save As Displays a
file selection dialog for saving the scene file with a new
name.
- Upload Displays a
dialog for uploading the scene file and its data files to
the BALSA database.
Show Scene Group
- Show loads the active (highlighted in blue)
scene. Double clicking on a scene's
title/description will also show the scene.
- Preview... opens a separate window with an enlarged
display of the highlighted scene's thumbnail along with
the name and description.
- Options Use background and foreground colors
from scene when a scene is created, the foreground and
background colors are added to the scene and will be
used when the scene is displayed. Note that the
background and foreground colors are adjusted using
the Preferences Dialog. When a scene is loaded that
contains background and foreground colors, they will
override the user's Preferences colors until a
different scene is loaded, a spec file is loaded, or
this checkbox is unchecked.