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Toolbar Buttons

The toolbar provides shortcuts to most of the Menu items, as shown below:  

Button Menu Item Description
New File button File | New... Creates a new ADF file. You will be prompted for the file format.
Open File button File | Open... Open an existing ADF or CGNS file. A file selection box will be invoked to allow filename selection.
Save As button File | Save As... Save a copy of the current file. A file selection box will be invoked to allow the filename selection.
Reload File button File | Reload Reload the current file.
 button File | File Info... A dialog box will invoked, which displays the file properties.
Auto Data Size button Config | Auto Data Size... This invokes a panel to allow setting the data size threshold for automatically loading node data into the Node Data window. The default value is set at 1K bytes.
Follow Links button Tree | Follow Links If enabled, then nodes which are linked to nodes containing children (subnodes) will be expanded. These subnodes will be displayed in the Node Tree in blue and are not editable. If not enabled, only the link nodes are shown.
Open One Level button   Opens the next level of child nodes for all the nodes in the Node Tree.
Close One Level button   Closes the last level of open nodes in the Node Tree.
Find Node button Tree | Find... Invokes a Find dialog box, which allows specification of a node to search for in the Node Tree. Wildcards are allowed in the node name.
Find Again button Tree | Find Again Searches for the next node in the Node Tree which matches the pattern specified in Find Node...
Update CGNS Version button Tools | Update CGNS... If the CGNS version of the current file is older than the library version used to build ADFviewer, this button will update the file to the newer CGNS version.
Check CGNS File button Tools | Check CGNS... If CGNScheck is installed, this will check the current file for CGNS compatability.
Plot CGNS File button Tools | Plot CGNS... If CGNSplot is installed, this will plot the current CGNS file.
Calculate CGNS button Tools | Calculate CGNS... If CGNScalc is installed this will invoke it for the current file.
Unit Conversions button Tools | Unit Conversions... Invokes a units conversion panel.
Help button Help | Viewer... Invokes the ADFviewer documentation.