The main window menu provides basic functionality for input and output,
access to help, and window layout control. These features are
always available regardless of the currently focused child window.
The menu bar always contains the File, Edit, Data, Windows,
and
Help menus. Focused windows may add other items to these
menus;
please see each windows' individual help files for more information.
File Menu
The File menu contains the necessary functionality for loading and
saving worksheets, starting new projects, and importing/exporting data.
The New
submenu allows
for the clearing of current data or the creation of an entirely new
worksheet. More information is available on the Creating a New
Worksheet page.
The Open
function allows the
user to load an existing Draco worksheets. All worksheets are
stored in a modified OpenDocument Spreadsheet file with the
extension ods-draco;
more about the file format can be found on the File Format Summary
page. The Save
feature immediately saves the worksheet under its current name or
requests a new name before saving if a name has not yet been specified.
The Save As
option will prompt the user for a filename before saving the file in
the native Draco format.
The Import
and Export
submenus contain the necessary options for importing external data or
exporting to other formats. See the Import and Export help
pages
for more information.
The Options menu currently contains a single checkable menu item.
The Use
Quicksave Only option
allows Draco to save the data within its native format in a slightly
faster and less memory-intensive manner. More information
about
this feature is found on the File
Format Summary and Quicksave
Feature pages.
The Close Worksheet option closes the current Draco window.
If
other Draco windows are open, the program will continue to run.
To completely exit the software, select the Exit Draco option.
Edit Menu
The main window's Edit menu will always contain at least the option to
open Draco's internal text editor. When Open text editor...
is selected, a new, blank editor window will appear.
Data Menu
The main window's Data menu contains the View Constants... item, which opens the Constants window.
Windows Menu
The Windows Menu provides a list of all windows currently open in the
software as well as an assortment of window management tools. The
first four menu items provide window arrangement facilities. Cascade
arranges the windows in a cascading fashion starting in the upper left
corner. The tile functions will tile the open windows either in
an intelligent grid, tiled horizontally, or tiled vertically.
The second set of options control the current state of the currently selected window. Restore returns the current window to its previous state. Minimize will hide the window, and Maximize will expand the current window to inhabit the entire main window.