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20 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.5)
21 * Copyright (C) 2010 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
23 * This file is part of Jalview.
25 * Jalview is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
26 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
27 * as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
29 * Jalview is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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37 <title>Desktop Menus</title>
41 <p><strong>Desktop Menus</strong></p>
43 <li><em> <strong>File</strong></em>
45 <li><strong>Input Alignment from</strong><em> (See more on <a
46 href="../io/index.html">file formats</a>) </em>
48 <li><strong>File (Control O)</strong><br>
49 <em>open file(s) on your local file system</em></li>
50 <li><strong>URL</strong><br>
51 <em>open a file from a website. The URL MUST start with http://</em></li>
52 <li><strong>Textbox</strong><br>
53 <em>copy and paste an alignment into a text window</em></li>
56 <li><strong>Fetch Sequence<br>
57 </strong><em>Shows a dialog window in which you can select known ids from
58 Uniprot, EMBL, EMBLCDS or PDB database using Web Services provided by
59 the European Bioinformatics Institute.</em></li>
60 <li><strong>Save Project</strong><br>
61 <em>Saves all currently open alignment windows with their current
62 view settings and any associated trees, as a <a
63 href="../features/jalarchive.html">Jalview Archive</a> (which has a
64 .jar extension).</em></li>
65 <li><strong>Load Project</strong><br>
66 <em>Loads Jalview archives <strong>only</strong>.</em></li>
67 <li><strong>Quit</strong><br>
68 <em>Close Jalview. <br>
69 <strong>Note - any annotation you have made on alignments will be lost
70 unless you Save your work before quitting.</strong></em><br>
74 <li><strong>Tools</strong>
76 <li><strong><a href="../features/preferences.html">Preferences<br>
77 </a></strong><em>Change the default visual settings for opening new alignment
79 <li><strong>Show Memory Usage<br></strong>
80 <em>When ticked, the currently available memory will be displayed in the
81 bottom right of the desktop background area.<br>
82 See the <a href="../memory.html">help on jalview memory settings</a> for more information.</em></li>
83 <li><strong>Collect Garbage<br></strong>
84 <em>Selecting this will initiate the Java Virtual Machine garbage collector, which might help free up some memory... perhaps.
86 <li><strong>Java Console<br/></strong>
87 <em>Toggles the display of a the Jalview Java Console window. This setting will be remembered in your user preferences.</em></li>
88 <li><strong>Groovy Console...<em> (only available if groovy is on the classpath)</em><br></strong>
89 <em>Open's the <a href="../groovy.html">Groovy Console</a> for interactive scripting.</em><strong><br></strong></li>
93 <li><strong>Vamsas</strong>
94 <em>For more details, read the <a href="../vamsas/index.html">Jalview VAMSAS documentation</a>.<br/>
95 When no session is active, the menu provides options for initiating a new VAMSAS session:</em>
97 <li><strong>Connect to<br/></strong>
98 <em>Connect to one of the existing sessions available.</em></li>
99 <li><strong>New VAMSAS session<br/></strong>
100 <em>Initiates a new local VAMSAS session.</em></li>
101 <li><strong>Load VAMSAS session...<br/></strong>
102 <em>Opens a file browser allowing you to choose a VAMSAS document to import into a new local session.</em></li>
104 <em>When Jalview is joined to a VAMSAS session, the menu contains the following:</em>
106 <li><strong>Session Update<br/></strong>
107 <em>Sends alignment data in the Jalview desktop to the VAMSAS session.</em></li>
108 <li><strong>Save VAMSAS Session...<br/></strong>
109 <em>Saves the current session to a VAMSAS document archive.</em></li>
110 <li><strong>Stop VAMSAS Session<br/></strong>
111 <em>Disconnects from the current session. You may be asked if you want to save the current session's data if no other VAMSAS clients are connected.</em></li>
114 <li><strong>Help </strong>
116 <li><strong>About<br>
117 </strong><em>Displays the version and creation date of the application, as
118 well as acknowledgements and a citation reference. </em></li>
119 <li><strong>Documentation<br>
120 </strong><em>Displays help files as a browseable, searchable set of pages
121 with a table of contents. </em><strong><br>
125 <li><strong>Window</strong><br>
126 <em>Each time a new window is added to the Jalview Desktop a
127 corresponding menu item will be added to the "Window" menu
128 that will bring the window to the top of the pile when it is selected.
130 <li><strong>Close All</strong><br>
131 Close all alignment and analysis windows.<br><strong>Note: This will erase all alignments from memory, and cannot be undone!</strong></li>
132 <li><strong>Raise Associated Windows</strong><br>
133 Bring all windows associated with the current alignment to the top of the pile.
135 <li><strong>Minimise Associated Windows</strong><br>
136 Hide all windows related to the current alignment behind icons on the Jalview Desktop.