View Menu
The View menu lets you turn off the toolbar and the status line if not required, and set the size of the image thumbnails. This menu can also be used to open or close the Playlist window, and switch between the Thumbnail view shown above and a
Source Menu
The Source menu provides the controls used to load a previously saved image/sequence (Import image – see Pattern Creation below), or to grab images from the serial input (New input – see Grabbing Images below). These functions are also available from icons on the toolbar (see page 73).
You can also specify a folder to be continuously monitored for new files, with each new file being directly loaded once it appears.
Pattern Menu
The Pattern menu provides various options concerning how images and sequences are manipulated.
Sort offers the choice of listing the loaded patterns in different ways.
Load loads the selected image into the Generator SDRAM, while Load All loads all images into the SDRAM. This is useful if you have disabled automatic loading of images as one of the Preferences set via the File menu.
Specify load
This option is particularly useful with avi files, which can contain more frames than the Generator frame buffer can hold. Access to the frames at the end of such .avi files is only possible using this option.
Resize Output provides some choices as to how images are resized when the image is not the same size as the currently selected resolution. The choices are the same as the ones offered in the Preferences dialogue (described above).
Shell open opens a window showing the file(s) used to construct the currently displayed image or sequence.
Save lets you save the current image. It is intended for use with an image that has been grabbed from the live input.
Save As… lets you save the current image to a new filename, and/or in a new format. For example, an image loaded as a BMP could be saved as a JPEG, or a sequence of multiple individual frames can be saved as an AVI file. Please note that when an image is saved, it is automatically reloaded afterwards. This is in case the image format has changed, such as from BMP to JPEG, so you can immediately see that the new image format is suitable.
Save Frame As… is a mode used with sequences, which lets you save an individual frame from anywhere within the sequence.
Properties provides information about the current image.
Delete removes the selected image from the Generator window, and frees up the SDRAM that was occupied. It does not affect the image stored on disk.
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