Examples

The examples dialog is used to locate and open example projects supplied with the program. There are more than 300 of these across all Itasca software. The dialog provides a number of controls to help the user locate useful or illustrative examples.

Figure 1: The Examples dialog.

Dialog Controls

Manage List

Sort field

Sort the list alphabetically (ascending or descending order).

Code select

Restrict the listed set of examples to those for the code(s) selected.

Filter field

Filter the examples to those whose titles contain the string entered in this field.

Find field

Find examples that contain this search term. The search includes both the body of the documentation on the project and the contents of all data files in the example project. As such, it may be used to search for examples that contain specific commands and FISH functions.

Project List

The projects available with the program are all listed by: title of the documentation page where the example project is described, the code that uses the project, and the project file name.

Open Settings

Open with: field

Select which code to use when opening the project.

Copy to: field

Select the folder where the project file will be copied.[1]

Note these settings are persistent and return each time the dialog is called.

Open

Open the selected project following the supplied settings. A new instance of the selected program is started to contain the selected project when the Open button is used. Note the documentation page containing the project is also automatically opened with the project.

Cancel

Dismiss the dialog without opening a project.

Endnote

[1]

At program installation, example projects distributed with the software are installed in a protected (read-only) folder on the user’s computer. When opening a project from the Examples dialog, the project is copied from the protected installation folder to one — specified here by the user — that will allow changes to be made and saved as needed.