GC Image Users' Guide

Image Viewer

GC Image allows users to visualize, process, analyze, and report on GCxGC images with the ultimate goal of identifying and quantifying chemicals in sample solutions. This chapter provides an overview of the GC Image main interface. Subsequent chapters describe specific operations in more detail.

The main interface of GC Image is the Image Viewer, pictured in Figure 1. The Image Viewer has (from top to bottom):

Figure 1: The Image Viewer has a title bar, menu bar, tool bars, image display with axes, and status bar.

The Image Viewer has seven top-level menus.

The Image Viewer tool bar has buttons for some commonly used operations, tools, and cursor modes. Each tool bar button has an identifying icon and a tool tip describing the action is displayed when the cursor lingers over a button. The top menu is configured as follows.

File actions
Button      Action
Import an image.
Open an image.
Close the image.
Save the image.
Print the image.
Edit actions
Button      Action
Undo previous operation.
Find blobs.
Build selection expression.
Edit blobs.
View actions
Button      Action
Colorize.
Scale Viewport.
Reset Display.
Show Navigator.
Show Multi-Projections.
Show text view.
Show 3D perspective.
Show blob set table.
Show blob table.
Filter actions
Button      Action
Shift phase.
Correct baseline.
Perform arithmetic operations.
Detect blobs.
Search library.
System actions
Button      Action
Show memory usage.

The bottom toolbar of the Image Viewer has a palette with buttons that control the cursor mode for the Viewport. Like the other toolbar buttons, the palette buttons have identifying icons and informative tool-tips. The bottom toolbar also has several action buttons.
Palette
Button      Cursor Mode
View.
Select graphic.
Draw point.
Draw polyline.
Draw rectangle.
Draw polygon.
Select blob(s) by point.
Select blob(s) by line.
Select blob(s) by rectangle.
Select blob(s) by polygon.
Draw blob.
Show point mass spectrum.
Show peak mass spectrum.
Show blob mass spectrum.
Select template object.
Draw template point.
Draw template polyline.
Draw template rectangle.
Draw template polygon.
Draw template peak.
Template Actions
Button      Action
Add to template.
Load template.
Match template.
Apply template.
Object Actions
Button      Action
Cut blob metadata.
Copy blob metadata.
Paste blob metadata.
Cycle internal standard.
Delete object(s).

Note: The following cursor mode sets are each selectable within a single button via pull-down menus.

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