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A toolbar provides fast access to many used functions in the menu. A status bar at the bottom
gives help about the meaning of the toolbar icons. A cursor appears when clicking the left mouse
button inside the graphics area. The cursor can be moved using the arrow keys. To get rid of the
cursor, make a double click with the right mouse button outside the graphics area. To define a
region, press the right mouse button, and while keeping the button pressed, drag a rectangle. In
zoomed state a scrollbar appears that allows scrolling through the spectrum.
In the following the several menu functions are described together with the corresponding toolbar
icons.
6.1. File
Menu
Load..., Add..., Save Display As..., Save MPA As...
These menu items provide the usual functions for loading and saving data, either a complete data
set when loading or saving a .MPA data file, or separated spectra when loading or adding a .MP
data file. The 'Load' function creates then a new spectrum for compare, whereas the 'Add'
functions adds the data to the spectrum selected by the active window. For saving a selected
spectrum into a seperate file, click on the respective display window and select “Save Display
As...” from the MPANT File menu. If you want to have the data file seperated from the header
containing the configuration, first open the data operations dialog using the toolbar icon showing
the 4 yellow diskettes, select “”Selected Spectra” and check “Seperate Header” as shown in
chapter 5.1.3. When saving data, you have the choice between binary (.DAT), ASCII (.ASC), and
CSV (.CSV) format by selecting it from “Save type As...”. To read a CSV file with Excel, load it as
a text file and configure TAB characters as seperators.
When you load data, select a header file (extension .MP). This file contains the information about
the size and format of the data file, which is then automatically read. With „
Add
“ the data is added
to the present data. The data read from a file is shifted according to the calibration, if it is
available and 'Use Calib' is checked in the MCS6A Data Operations dialog.
Fig. 6.2: MPANT Map and Isometric display