Introduction

• The graphical user interface that provides some point and click convenience over just working at the command line.

• In the gui shell you can enter commands at the '>>>' prompt and work with the menu options

File

• In the file menu you can
  • Change your current working directory,

  • Save the data defined in the current workspace in the pickle format. Note that Save uses the default save file name while Save As lets you set the name. See tdl/Pds/Files for more info.

  • Select and restore a pickled data file
  • Exit the program

Options

• In the options menu you can edit the files that control how pds starts up

• Note for this to work the __edit__ function in the file ../pds/startup.pds needs to be properly configured to point to your favorite editor program.

Shell

• This starts a pure python shell

Applications

• User interfaces for various applications are found under the Applications menu

• The various application interfaces are explained in more detail here tdl/Pds

Help

• Help will point you back to web based documentation

• Note for the menu to launch the documentation correctly in a web browser the __web__ function in the file ../pds/startup.pds needs to be properly configured to point to your favorite web browser program.