OPUS user interface

After clicking once again on the OK button the standard OPUS user interface will be displayed as depicted in Fig 2.8. It consists of three windows, the browser window, the spectrum window, and the overview. If you place the cursor on the border between these windows, you will notice the cursor changes to Hl or. This allows you to re-size the windows. 

You can load a file into the OPUS user interface (see Fig. 2.8) by using the Load File command from the File menu or by clicking on the icon cf located in the upper left icon bar. In this manner you open the Load Spectrum dialog box shown in Fig. 3.2. The icons in the upper line of this box have the following meaning ... 

You can select several items in the file list using the control or shift key while selecting the spectra. In this case the number of selected files will be shown instead of the data blocks and spectra previews. Clicking on the Open button will load the spectrum into OPUS user interface and automatically close the... 

When the default settings are loaded, the spectrum window is located in the right pane of the OPUS user interface. After a file has been loaded, all spectral features of this file such as spectra and interferograms can be displayed. As an example, the transmittance spectrum, the single channel sample spectrum, the sample inter-ferogram, and the single channel reference spectrum of the MIR file INDIGO are displayed in Fig. 3.10. 

The icons are here depicted as Large Buttons in New Look. It is up to you to choose small buttons in new or old look by inactivating the appropriate boxes. The new look version shows no separation between icons in a toolbar. Furthermore, note that it is useful to mark Show Tooltips, which means, if you let the cursor rest for a while on an icon, an info text will be displayed, which describes the function of the icon. You can move bars by Drag and Drop to any point of the OPUS User Interface. Find out by yourself how the toolbars change by moving to the Spectrum Window or to the Browser Window. 

The status bar on the bottom of the OPUS user interface displays information about programs running in the OPUS environment and their current status. You can activate or deactivate the status bar by checking the Status Bar command. 

By default the OPUS user interface displays the Browser window on the left side. If you deselect the Browser command, only the spectrum window and the preview will be shown. Besides these options you can also reposition the browser... 

Figure 9.3. The Cascaded window of the OPUS user interface.

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