4.3.1 File Menu
Different operating systems will have a different look, but all versions will put up a Welcome window when you have fired up the program MagIC.py. When you pull down the "File" menu, you will see these options:
- Change Project MagIC Directory: Allows you to switch the directory that you are working in without exiting the program.
- Clear Project MagIC Directory: Erases all files in the current directory - be careful with this one!
- Unpack Downloaded txt file: After downloading a Smartbook from the MagIC website, you can unpack the contents into a MagIC project directory and work on it using the PmagPy software using this option. For example, go the the persistent link for a paper published by Lawrence et al., (2009) and download the textfile (not the Excel spreadsheet). Save this as a text file (zmab0100049tmp03.txt). After making sure that you have chosen an appropriate MagIC project directory (an empty one, because all files with the same name will be overwritten!), choose "Unpack Downloaded txt file". Select the text file just downloaded and watch the output in the terminal window. The text file gets copied into your MagIC Project directory and operated on with the PmagPy program [EXTERNAL LINK _blank "http://magician.ucsd.edu/Software/PmagPy/Docs/PmagPy.html#download_magic.py""download_magic.py"] which splits it up into individual text files that reflect individual data tables in the MagIC format. If you look into these using a text editor (or Excel), you will find the header information with the table type (er_samples, er_location, magic_measurements, etc.) along with all the data.
- Exit: Quits the MagIC.py program.
