A Friendly Guide to H5s Graphics

Desktop Composition

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The Console

The console window provides the fundamental operators for accessing HDF5, composing the H5s windows on the desktop, application record keeping, e.g. user preferences, versioning, and updates. It does not contain HDF5 graph display operators or controls.

Datastore access, filesystem paths, and H5S settings
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Fast Flyover Pulldowns

Most of the usual suspects (e.g. FILE, EDIT, VIEW) from an application menubar, delivered in a short-throw set of pulldowns.

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Open datastore path stack

Pulldown with the stack of open datastore filesystem paths, augmented with close and hide/show operators.

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Filesystem path of the active datastore

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Datastore fingerprint pulldown

A pulldown to presets, properties, and metrics of the active datastore.

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Datastore file access

A set of time-release buttons for native filesystem open/save dialogs.

Desktop composition
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Contour window controls

A set of time-release buttons for operations on datastore contour windows: hide, show, new, and close operators.

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Contour window sequencer

Sequence forward or backward through the visible datastore contour windows.

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H5s Windows desktop operators

Customary exit and minimize operators, plus some ones specific to H5s for specific modifications to contour window geometry.

HDF5 Named Data Object Path descriptor
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HDF5 data object path stack

Pulldown with the stack of selected data object paths in each of the open datastores, augmented with close and hide/show operators. Using the path stacks, a contour can either be activated by a filesystem path3 or by data object path.

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Size

Size of the data object measured in the number of elements of its specified datatype.

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Selected data object path in the active datastore

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Dataspace

The dataspace descriptor, showing rank and dimension, for the selected data object.

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Datatype

Rank, type, and dimensionality of the datatype of the selected data object.

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Storage layout

Storage layout of the selected data object. When using chunked storage, the layout will have non-zero rank.

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Data object path history in the active datastore
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