h1. %{color:darkred}General Organization of the interface%

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h1. Composition of the interface

*ComputreeGUI* is the standard Computree interface. It allows management of steps and their results, but also to customize their display in 3D or tabular views.

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It includes the following elements:
# A *menu bar*
# A *main toolbar*
# A *Step Manager*
# A *Model Manager*
# An *Item configurator*
# A *3D view*
# A *tabular view*
# An *Action Manager* (Actions)
# A *Views synchronization manager* ( Synchronizing views)
# A *Log window*

p<>. *The main tool bar* (2) offer icons most of the features present in the *menu bar* (1). These features will be described in different parts of this documentation.

p<>. *The Step Manager* (3) is central because it allows you to create and execute *Steps tree*. It, and also the *Log windows* (10), would be described in detail in [[En_computreegui_stepmanager|Managing processing]].

p<>. *The Model Manager* (4) and the *Item configurator* (5) would be described in [[En_computreegui_items|Displaying items]].

p<>. The *3D* (6) and *tabular* (7) *views*,  and the *Views synchronization manager* (9) will be described in [[En_computreegui_views|Views functionning]].

p<>. The *Action Manager* (8) will be presented in [[En_computreegui_actions|Using actions]].

h1. Organization of the interface

p<>. Components 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 are *dockable components*, which can be moved, stacked (as tabs) or used as floating windows. You just have to left-click on the title bar and move it, holding the click, to their desired destination. The Window menu provides two default options for organization of these components :
* *Components in column*: All components are separated and occupy the left and the right of the screen. This configuration is  loaded at first launch ComputreeGUI.
* *Components in column (Log at bottom)*: gives an alternative with the Log at bottom.
* *Components in tabs*: stack in tabs components 4, 8 and 10 together and components 8 and 10 together. This configuration gives more space to the views, but requires navigating between components by the tabs.

p<>. You can customize the organization of composants, by moving them.

p<>. The arrangement of components is stored in the config.ini file when closing Computree, and is would be loaded for the next session of Computree.

p<>. If a component has been closed, it can be recalled using the *window menu*.

h1. Help menu

* The *Help menu* provides two elements:
* *About Computree*, which gives the copyright information
* *About plugins*, which allows to see the loaded plugins and information about their available content.

p<>. *About plugins* windows list loaded plugins. For each plugin it gives available steps. For each step it gives IN and OUT models of results.

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warning<>. In the case of steps making a copy of an input result (filtering steps), the OUT result corresponding model cannot be displayed (it will be fixed in the future).

p<>. The *Reload* button is used to restart the loading of plugins, and in particular for changing the path to plugin directory, if it is not at the default location.

p<>. If you click on a step and the on the *Step Info* button, it open a window with the following information:
* Name of step
* Plugin membership
* Address of the wiki page containing this information
* Short description of step (displayed as tool-tip in the application)
* Detailed Description of step
* Models IN step
* Models OUT step (unless for copy results)

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