Popup basics

The user interface of Analysis is made up of menus and popups. In this manual, we will distinguish 4 different types of popups:

- General popup
- Notification and confirmation popups
- Window popup
- Browse files popup

Besides a number of general controls in most of the popups, they all of these have specific functionality that is accessible to the user through user interaction widgets, such as buttons, text input fields and pulldown menus.

General popup

A good example of a general popup is the Molecule: Molecules popup. This popup contains all the different attributes that are available in all other popups, and we will use it here to describe all the different types of functionality in a general way.

Attributes of a general Analysis popup.

Displayed are 2 tabs of the Molecule: Molecules popup, with different attributes boxed.

General popup controls

Besides the controls provided by the operating system for closing, resizing, minimising and maximising popups, Analysis has its own general controls. These are present in most, but not all, popups and are shown as icons:

- Duplicates popup

- Help

- Cancel or close

Popup Tabs

An important feature of most popups is the fact that they are subdivided into tabs. The tabs are shown on the top of the window and can be accessed by simple clicks on the desired tab.

Action and input widgets

The user interaction with Analysis popups takes place through the interface widgets in the popups. These are:

- Action buttons, which activate specific actions in Analysis
- Pulldown widgets, used to select a value from a list
- Tables, which contains table columns:
  - A table column, which consists of table cells, and that can be sorted by clicking on the column header:

- - - Single click to sort the column (default sorting, no left bottom triangle):
    - Single click to sort in descending order (left-bottom corner triangle down):
    - Single click to sort in ascending order (left-bottom corner triangle up):
  - Table cells can be normal table cells, or editable table cells.

- - - Editable table cells show a 'E' in the bottom left corner:
    - To edit, double click on the cell and the editor is activated (can be a variety of editing widgets, e.g. text or pulldown lists):

- - Clicking the right mouse button on a table activates the Table menu.

- Checkboxes, used to switch options on or off.
- Radio buttons, used to select one option from various options.
- Input areas, used to enter text or other types of information.

Notification and confirmation popups

This type of popup is the simplest in Analysis. They are used for pass messages from Analysis to the user, and can contain confirmation or cancellation buttons. These information in the popups are intended to be sufficiently self-explanatory. Examples are:

Window popup

This section is described in Window.

Browse files popup

This section is described in Browse files.

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