File management is accomplished with the File menu. The following picture shows the File menu.
New...
To create a new file you use the File/New... menu. You have to select the type of file you want to create from the 'Save as type' list box. You can create new files of type *.gscr (GSEOS Screen files), *.log (Log Files), and *.lst (Block Listing Files).
Screen files will create a new GSEOS screen window. Screens allow to display the different data items in numerical or graphical form. Log will create a new Log window. The List Blocks setting allows you to get more detailed information about your block definitions in form of a list file. You have to enable the block listing capability in the gseos.ini file [System] section.
Open...
To open an existing file use the File/Open... menu. Select the type of file you want to open from the 'Files of type' select list. You can open files of the following types:
You can select multiple files at one time and all of them will be opened, this is espcially useful for window based files like Screen files or Log files.
The Screen, and Log files are the same you can find in the File/New... menu.
Besides the GSEOS 6.x screen files of type *.gscr you can also load GSEOS screen files of versions 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x. Once you make modifications to a *.scr file it will be saved in *.gscr format and can not be read by the older versions of GSEOS any longer.
A Desktop file loads an entire screen configuration. This allows you to save the window and desktop page layout in a single file. You can also combine different desktop files by using the File/Append... menu.
If you open an existing Python module (which can be either a .py, .pyc, .pyd, or .dll file) the system will try to reload the file first. If you made any changes to the file after it was imported already these changes will take effect. If the reload operation is not successful an import operation is performed. Any errors that occur during the load process will be reported in the Message Window and also pop up a message box with the according error message.
There are different kind of command files, Command Definition Files (*.cpd) define new commands, Command Batch Files (*.cpb) allow the execution of time tagged command batches, and Command Menu Files (*.cm) add command menus to the GSEOS main menu for easy access of your commands.
Other configuration files like Formula Files (*.qlf), Text Reference Files (*.tr), and Alarm Limit Files (*.alarm) are grouped together in the Configuration Files type.
Append...
The Append... menu will append to the currently loaded files of the same file type. The system only supports the Desktop file type for append operations. If you append a desktop file the new desktop will be merged into the existing one. If you want to save this newly merged desktop use the File/SaveAs... menu and select the file type Desktop. Please note that the default name for the desktop will be the one of the desktop file last appended.
SaveAs...
The SaveAs... combines the functionality of the conventional Windows Save and SaveAs commands. It will default to the current file name for the file type you select. In this way it acts like the Save command found in other applications. If you change the file name you can save the file under a different name and will therefore get the SaveAs functionality.
Configure Tabs...
In order to add additional desktop pages to the desktop or to change the order of desktop pages use this menu. Please refer to the Desktop section for more information on desktop management.
Print...
The print menu opens the print dialog that allows you to print the active window.
Print Desktop...
The Print Desktop menu allows you to print the entire GSEOS application. This feature allows to quickly print the current configuration for documentation purposes.
Printer Setup...
This menu invokes the system printer setup dialog and lets you configure the current printer settings from within GSEOS.
Most recently used list
The following entries represent the most recently used files and by simply clicking on the name you can load the according file quickly. This is especially useful for loading Python modules that you might change in an editor and want to reload.
Customizing the File Type list
You can also add your custom file extensions to the file type list. To find out how to register your own custom file types in the GSEOS file management check the Gseos module for more information.