Text Window Menu Bar

Text windows are used for the Listings group in the File menu of the Graphics window, by the Coordination button in the Input Atoms dialog in the Input2 menu, and by the

Calculation Output command in the Input2 menu - see Types of Windows. They are standard text or edit windows. To switch to the ATOMS main graphics window, which has the menus and commands for altering and displaying atomic structure data, use the Window menu, or click on the Graphics window if it is visible.

File menu - This is a standard File menu which pertains only to the special files with extension.ADT named above.

Edit menu - This menu has the normal text editing commands, which again pertain only to the special files with extension.ADT.

Window menu - Use this menu to switch to the ATOMS graphic window for most operations on ATOMS data sets, and to set the font for the Text windows.

Help menu - On-line help.

3.3.1 File menu (Text Window)

The commands in this menu apply only to Text windows, which are generated by the List... commands in the File menu of the Graphics window, by the Coordination button in the Input Atoms dialog in the Input1 menu, or by Calculation Output - see

Types of Windows for further explanation.

Close - Closes the Text window, and the file associated with it.

Save - Saves the file associated with the window.

Save As - Saves the contents of the window to a specified file name.

Print - Prints the contents of the Text window.

Page Setup - Set the page size and select the printer.

Exit - Exits ATOMS.

3.3.1.1 Save command (Text Window) Save command ( File menu, Text windows)

When called from Text windows, this saves the (text) contents of the current window in the file whose name is in the title bar. The standard ATOMS files INPUT.ATD,

GENATOMS.ATD, FACES.ATD and TOTALS.ATD are in a subdirectory or subfolder (Output) to the directory containing the ATOMS program (.EXE) file. They are

overwritten each time you request a list of the corresponding type. Thus if you want to save these files, you should probably use the Save As command instead of Save, give the files new names and put them in the same directory as the structure data (.STR) file. See

Types of Windows.

3.3.1.2 Save As command (Text Windows) Save As command ( File menu, Text windows)

When called from Text windows, this saves the (text) contents of the current window in the file whose name is in the title bar. The standard ATOMS files INPUT.ATD,

GENATOMS.ATD, FACES.ATD and TOTALS.ATD are in a subdirectory or subfolder (Output) to the directory containing the ATOMS program (.EXE) file. They are

overwritten each time you request a list of the corresponding type. Thus if you want to save these files, you should probably use the Save As command instead of Save, give the files new names and put them in the same directory as the structure data (.STR) file. See

Types of Windows.

To save a text file with its existing name and directory, use the Save command.

3.3.1.3 Close command (Text Windows) Close command ( File menu, Text windows)

Use this command to close the currently active Text window. ATOMS inquires if you want to save changes to your data file before you close it. If you close a data set without saving, you lose all changes made since the last time you saved it.

The standard ATOMS files INPUT.ATD, GENATOMS.ATD, FACES.ATD and TOTALS.ATD are in a subdirectory or subfolder (Output) to the directory containing the ATOMS program (.EXE) file. They are overwritten each time you request a list of the corresponding type. Thus if you want to save these files, you should probably use the Save As command, give the files new names and put them in the same directory as the structure data (.STR) file.

3.3.1.4 Print command (Text Windows) Print command ( File menu, Text windows)

Use this command to print the contents of a Text window. This command presents a Print dialog box, where you may specify the range of pages to be printed, the number of copies, the destination printer, and other printer setup options.

3.3.1.5 Page Setup

This allows setting of the paper type or size, the standard orientation (portrait or landscape) and the paper margins (except Macintosh). Margins will only be used in

Text Windows.

---Macintosh only

---Use the Page Margins dialog to set margins.

3.3.1.6 Page Margins

---Macintosh

only----This dialog sets the margins for Text Windows. Use the Page Setup dialog to choose page size and orientation.

3.3.2 Edit menu (Text Window)

The Edit menu for Text windows offers the usual commands.

Undo Reverse previous editing operation.

Cut Deletes data from the document and moves it to the clipboard.

Copy Copies data from the document to the clipboard.

Paste Pastes data from the clipboard into the document.

3.3.2.1 Cut command Cut command (Edit menu)

Use this command to remove the currently selected data from the document and put it on the clipboard. This command is unavailable if there is no data currently selected.

Cutting data to the clipboard replaces the contents previously stored there.

3.3.2.2 Paste command Paste command (Edit menu)

Use this command to insert a copy of the clipboard contents at the insertion point. This command is unavailable if the clipboard is empty.

3.3.2.3 Copy command Copy command (Edit menu)

Use this command to copy selected data onto the clipboard. This command is unavailable if there is no data currently selected.

Copying data to the clipboard replaces the contents previously stored there.

3.3.2.4 Undo command

Undo/Can't Undo command (Edit menu)

Use this command to reverse the last editing action, if possible. The name of the

command changes, depending on what the last action was. The Undo command changes to Can't Undo on the menu if you cannot reverse your last action.

3.3.3 Window Menu

The Window Menu in Text Windows is identical to the Window Menu in the Graphics Window.

It does have a command for changing the font of all text in the window.