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4.3 File select dialogs
On most platforms you can drag files from your file manager directly to
nip2's main window. Alternatively, if you select File / Open
in the main window, nip2 will pop up a file dialog, see
Figure 4.5. The open dialog has the following features:
- Pin up button
- Normally the file dialog closes after you have opened something.
If this item is checked, the dialog will stay up instead -- this is useful
if you want to load or save a series of objects.
- Image type select
- Use this menu to select the type of file you want nip2 to display.
There's a preference option to set the default image format. The VIPS
file format is fast and accurate, but sadly not very widely supported
(joke). You can also load and save images in TIFF, JPEG, PNG and PBM/PGM/PPM
formats. The save options related to these formats can be changed in the
JPEG save, TIFF save, PNG save and PBM/PGM/PPM save
columns in the preferences workspace. You can usually load in many more
formats, it depends how your nip2 has been configured.
- Show thumbnails
- Pressing this button pops up a window which shows thumbnail-sized images
for all the matching files in the current directory.
- Bookmarks
- The box and buttons down the left show your bookmarks. You can add and remove
bookmarks with the two buttons below.
- Location
- Press the path buttons at the top of the dialog to move up and down a
series of directories. If you press Ctrl-L you can type (or copy-paste)
an exact location.
The save dialog is a little different, see
Figure 4.6. The save dialog has the following extra features:
- Increment button
- If pin up and increment are both selected, then after a save nip2 will
attempt to add one to the selected file name. For example, if you save a file
called fred001.v, after the save nip2 will put the name fred002.v
into the selected file name box. Again, this is useful if you want to save
a series of images.
- Browse for other folders
- If you click this, the save dialog opens up and you can see the current set of
files and browse to other directories.
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John Cupitt
2004-12-20